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Politics Quotes
"Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools."
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"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation."
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"Democratic leaders always seem to blame America first."
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"Salazar's record is one of weakness; he hasn't been a good attorney general."
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"The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game."
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"China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn't China involved? They're going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get oil from Libya, China does."
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"A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience."
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"The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well."
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"Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security."
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"We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics."
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"We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better."
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"A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics."
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"If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it."
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"For me it is completely clear that our air bases in Germany would be available to the Americans."
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"I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that."
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"I have seen the times when the grassroots has moved the Congress. We listen way more often to our constituents than the lobbyists. And the grassroots are going to have to do it."
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"When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man."
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"In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions."
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"The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe."
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"Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced."
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"If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore."
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"It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics."
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"Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction."
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"The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget."
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"The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes."
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"I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States."
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"Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future."
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"Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality."
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"Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it."
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"Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America."
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"Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty."
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"My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States."
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"Democracy is the government of the people by the people for the people."
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"Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?"
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"Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software."
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"I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration."
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