Quotes About Opinion

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.

A new survey shows that the American public is more conservative now than at any point since 1952. The bad news is that all the liberals that died since then are still voting.

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.

...one is reminded that [John Kerry, D-MA] really just a better-looking Ted Kennedy, a richer Michael Dukakis.

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.

Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.

I have no opinion. No, none at all. Opinion is politics, and politics is an evil which has caused many a fellow to be hung while he's still young and pretty.

I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

I don't like the new president who hunts muslim extremists, I like the old president who is a muslim extremist.

Party is organized opinion.

I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.

In politics there is no right answer - and no final answer.

The only truly shocking thing about last Tuesday's election is that the Democrats didn't do far worse, or as badly as they deserved.

I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

[Senator] Kerry [democrat MA] is emerging as the worst of all the viable Democratic candidates. He has the backbone of Clinton and the charm of Gore.

Walter Mondale once said God has no place in American politics and it turned out that God felt the same way about Walter Mondale.

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

The American people are fed up...with political posturing.' True, but also an example of political posturing.

John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante