Politics Quotes - Page 73

In Washington, when you’re a leader, you have to put aside partisan politics to do what’s right for the people.

American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.

Long time ago when we were fab, back when income tax was all we had.

We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service.

I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.

We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life.

We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.

Journalism is kind of scary and of it we should be wary.

Positions on politics and religion are labels. Inside I'm still me, just older and tired.

When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined.

A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own.

The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy

All fundamental political problems are problems of relationships; therefore, all fundamental solutions have to involve fundamental changes in relationships.

There aren't many idealists in politics.

Dodd continued to hope that the murders would so outrage the German public that the regime would fall, but as the days passed he saw no evidence of any such outpouring of anger.

[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.

Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.

My morals went when the president got oral.

We can't have these great corporations crowding competition off the sidewalks. It's like an elephant saying, "Everyone for himself," as he dances among the chickens.

The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.

I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.

I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.