Politics Quotes - Page 76

Clinton cannot possibly win in 2000.

The destruction, it is just very heart-rendering.

Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a cure for AIDS in the marketplace before Magic Johnson gets AIDS?

There's laws that we must live by, and they're not the laws of man.

A lot of conservative writers have twisted that argument in the conversation around Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel and said this is identity politics as played by liberals. And that I think what they're trying to say is that progressives are the first to say.

If there is any emergence of a fourth party in British politics, it is the task of the Liberal Party to strangle it at birth.

It takes a certain kind of man to be in politics--a small one.

California is no longer a state, it's a hedge fund.

I still have that new senator smell.

Let me blow that up for you again.

At times, the most dangerous politicians have been those impelled by dreams and ideals, rather than basic realities.

The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics

I can understand that if you have sold arms to the ayatollah why you might not be quite as sensitive to the need to get assault weapons off our streets.

We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang.

There was plenty of evidence that Saddam had nuclear weapons, by the way. That is not in dispute. There is plenty of evidence of that.

The thing is, I hate political comedy. I personally loathe it.

Oprah is so rich, I saw John Kerry proposing to her.

I have no belief in the system. So Sonny is perfectly at home (in Washington D.C.). Politicians are one step down below used-car salesmen.

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Women are the volatile vote at the end-particularly independent, non-college-educated married women.

Kelso and Adler's book could start a revolution.

We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.

Damn Americans. I hate those bastards.

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.