Political Quotes

What I've found is that there is a tremendous interest in these issues, across the political spectrum, sort of left-right terms we used to describe people don't really hold here exactly.

All special assistants to the president are typically political appointees of the first year of the new president.

Mandates are rarely won on election night. They are earned after Inauguration Day by leaders who spend their political capital wisely, taking advantage of events without overreaching.

Obama considers himself above deal-making and back-slapping, political necessities he often delegates to Vice President Joe Biden and other lesser sorts.

The 2016 presidential election is ripe for the emergence of a game-changing political leader who either dramatically reforms one of the existing parties or mounts an independent bid.

The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics.

Political reporters and political professionals rushed to judgment against Romney because we crave clear, unambiguous story lines.

Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty, and the end of welfare and affirmative action.

I'm all for raw milk. I think you should make your own choice on whether you drink raw milk or not.

I've never joined any political party and have no plans to do so. I'm fully independent.

Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man... , But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians - wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage.

The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.

We need more Democrats in the Senate -Like Custer needed more arrows.

Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth was lost that people don't make war, governments do.

There are simple answers to the nation's problems, but not easy ones.

I don't want to do a TV series. It's no fun working from dawn to sunset every day. An occasional movie would be fine, and then I'll see what might develop on the political front.

Artists are able to do well in the political arena because of fame, if only they can educate themselves.

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

Riots born out of political issues aren't the same as those born out of personal greed.

Neither political party is clean when it comes to tactics that divide our people.

I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America.

The question of receiving the immigrant is an ethical issue that becomes a political issue.

I've always been more interested in the content of our newspapers, political positions day to day, the thrill of communicating with people through words that I am in the pure business aspects.

Elections are when you have to make a choice. Perfection not often attainable!

I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.

Donald Trump lives and operates in a political world, but he's not political. This is what people still don't get.

Democrats are unified under the premise of total political annihilation.

To somebody like Obama, substantive opposition is not tolerable. The objective is to eliminate all opposition - be it a political party, be it media, or what have you.

The Kennedy lifestyle is something that is looked upon favorably by the elites throughout our culture, both political and social.

The American political system is a giant bureaucracy.

Our political system cannot stop the degradation of our culture.

If Milo [Yiannopoulos] were a liberal, he could say whatever and then some, and he wouldn't be addressing Conservative Political Action Conference, he would be emceeing the Oscars.

Innocent Americans are murdered, and what happens? An entire political party and an amendment to the US Constitution gets blamed.

Trump did more interviews, he explained his agenda more than any political presidential candidate ever has, in my memory, and he has tried to stick to it as people perceive it.

The right seeks political victory at the ballot box - and that's just the way it's been. It's a bit cliched to say but the right, conservatives, work. They have jobs.

I think it's always been an arrangement that had political objectives and goals, which is fine. Get married for whatever reason you want, as far as I'm concerned.

A grievance is a political action. It's not just African-Americans.

You're falling into the trap of believing everything that's in the political handbook, and at the top of the list it says you can't do anything without money. [Donald] Trump has.

We must let this town square, which has added a significant dimension to our political process, continue to flourish.

The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.

Imagining the overthrow of the current political system is the only way I can be enthused about politics.

The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom may be maintained.

The day will never come when any Palestinian would be arrested because of his political affiliation or because of resisting the occupation. The file of political detention must be closed.

We will not put our sons in prison for political membership or resisting occupation, because occupation is the reason for the problem.

It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

The people believed that while the courts would be independent, they would defer to the political branches on policy issues.

I believe you [Samuel Alito] and others would look and say that the role of the courts is limited and it's not to decide political matters.

I believe, assume the power to decide more political than legal issues in nature, the people naturally focus less on the law and more on the lawyers that are chosen really to administer the law.

I stated at Justice [John] Roberts' hearing, the court's injected itself into many of the political debates of our day.

I was very concerned about helping animals improve their situations. But that was out of love. It wasn't political or out of a belief that animals had rights.