Political Quotes

I can't compete and when I do, the rules of engagement change in the middle of the game. I'll let the powers that be vanquish themselves and return in three to five years to sift through the remains.

We've always been divided by some of these big political issues. It's fine. As long as we treat each other with respect and remember that ultimately, we're all Americans, we'll be fine.

Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture and vision, and by following the American way.

The future of any leader or political systems is to be determined by the people of the country.

I guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department or the FBI, not just in this case, but in any case, full stop, period.

I think it's important to realize that I was actually black before the election.

If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country.

Listening to evangelicals bridges major political fault line.

My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes that they should be paying higher taxes.

Medicare in particular, will run out of money, and we will not be able to sustain that program.

The capacity of Iraq's security forces has improved, and Iraq's leaders have made strides toward political accommodation

We've gotta restore the American people's confidence in the ethics process by ensuring that political self-interest can no longer prevent politicians from enforcing ethics rules.

[Donald Trump] ran an extraordinarily unconventional campaign and it resulted in the biggest political upset in perhaps modern political history. American history.

Our vulnerability to Russia or any other foreign power is directly related to how divided, partisan, dysfunctional our political process is. That's the thing that makes us vulnerable.

With respect to Syria, we are going to continue to work as we have over the last five, six years to push towards a political transition and settlement.

Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions.

A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.

If we want to really reduce foreign influence on our elections, then we better think about how to make sure that our political process, our political dialogue is stronger than it's been.

We seem to have trouble with [critical thinking]. And our political system doesn't help.

My conviction is that those fights need to be fought right now and can be won. And if in fact we have finite political capital, energy, resources, we need to win those fights.

I continue to believe when I said in Hanover, that the E.U. remains one of the world's great political and economic achievements, and that those achievements should not be taken for granted.

The first thing I would do would be to move forward with an agenda to make sure that we give D.C. the opportunity to elect its own representatives and have some political power on Capitol Hill.

The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like pay.

The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.

there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!

I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

I agree with Pres. Barack Obama, Iraqis need a political solution. No war in Iraq!

When men start talking about 'honor', there is sure to be trouble ahead.

How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?... Not only is he poisoning our air and water - he's poisoning our political system as well.

On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.

Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.

Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.

Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.

Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement.

From Russia for example, we have political support, which is different from the cooperation. We have cooperation for 60 years now, but now we have political support.

We are very cautious in judging [Donald Trump], especially as he wasn't in a political position before.

You cannot have partition only on political bases or geographic bases. It should be social first of all when the communities do not live with each other.

Whether you call it terrorism or resistance, and whether you like Hamas or not, it is a political entity that no one can ignore.

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world.

The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.

It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.

What we're witnessing really is a political realignment, I mean I think we're moving from a traditional understanding of left-right politics that we've had for a long time.

Our political divides have become our personal divides.

One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and see how they play out on real people's lives, with real individuals.

I would love us to bring back our Juedo-Christian values and begin to teach those things, at a time other than a political election.

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'