Politics Quotes (4933 Quotes)

The truth is that Congress has lacked the political will to enforce it. The federal governmental stepped in and said we're going to subsidize your insurance in return for certain things, but the other part of the bargain often hasn't materialized.

This is proof-positive that Gov. Rounds cares more about politics than about the health and safety of women in South Dakota. In every state, women, their families, and their doctors should be making private, personal health care decisions not politicians.

With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.

We must conduct elections so that 2006 will not be a lost year regarding the political and economic process, and the passing of the budget, ... in this complicated situation that we are in.

The Iraq issue is now at critical juncture of whether there will be a military solution or a political one,

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of a growing and complex industrial civilization. And I don't think the Republican party is really wide awake to that.

The basic economic trends in India remain pretty compelling. Growth should still be in the 6 to 6.5 percent range. They've managed to keep inflation under control and you've had a private sector that has a history of detaching itself from some of the politics going on.

Smith and Carlos aside, I object to using the Olympic awards stand to make a political statement.

Political Correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up.

My Republican friends are laughing at us because of the indecision we're going through, ... Inside Politics.

To use an unfortunate metaphor, Iraq is a roadside bomb in American politics.

The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots of money and they have had for a long time, so they can give money to politicians, which gets their attention.

I just love the phrase 'don't tread on me,' and it usually has political connotations, but in this particular song, it's not a political song, it's more about feeling frustrated and feeling volatile and just needing some space, ... It's a very personal song. But then titling the album Don't Tread on Me and the artwork, there's a few pretty scathing political comments made on there. We didn't want to go all political, but I think in this day and age you kind of need to say what you think about things 'cause it is such a crisis situation.

Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the people.

That's one of the most ridiculous and insulting things that I think I've heard in politics. Lynn Swann is the outsider, and Bill Scranton's the guy who's been in Harrisburg before, who's been around the trouble before.

The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

It's a rough-and-tumble, swaggering electorate who like to see the guilty punished to the max, ... I don't know that a plea deal is in the cards. It depends on the political wishes of the prosecutor.

I scream at the right-wingers on the talking-head shows. At the same time, I make clear in all of my associations that I'm an actor who plays a politician. I let the problems of the free world go when I leave the studio.

I think the market is in reasonably good shape until later in the year when the political stuff becomes more center stage and then we'll see what happens, ... Shorter-term, the employment number Friday was good, I think earnings will be excellent, but a lot of that may be baked into the market already.

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

We are not looking at tax reform this year or probably during the Bush presidency. Maybe they'll resurrect it in 2007, but then at that time everyone will be looking at the next presidential race.

Political pornography is not unlike the sexual kind: difficult to define, but you know it when you see it.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

This thoughtful and careful opinion will be very important in the history of Florida because it is a strong affirmation of the privacy rights of the people of Florida and a strong rebuke to politicians who attempt to interfere in medical decisions that should be left to all of us and are simply not the business of politicians.

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.

Sihanouk founded a political party and contested the elections himself. He sent thugs and police to break up opposition meetings and kill opposition candidates. Communists and all other oppositions were suppressed. Some oppositionists were executed by the military-the Sihanouk forces made a film of one of these executions and ordered it to be shown in every movie theater.

Clearly it seemed like a good sound bite at the time for the minister to say that. The political will (to merge) is entirely lacking, and one's fear is that this sex offender registry was little more than a publicity stunt. We hope not.

I don't have a political bone in my body.

These reforms propose to create competitive elections. Under the current system, the party in power draws its district to create lopsided and safe seats for candidates. Our reforms take the politics out of it and create competition in the elections process. We believe if politicians have to work to earn their seats, they'll be more responsive to their constituents.

Crime does not pay as well as politics.

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.

All I know is I came away from my discussions with him feeling it was going to be a pretty thorough and candid telling of his life, and that he was going to talk about all the principal events of his presidency. The heart of the book is what you'd expect it to be. The heart of it will be his presidency.

We need to take retirement savings out of the hands of the politicians who are squandering it and give it back to the American people.

There have been times when Democratic presidents picked Republican Fed chairmen and vice versa. I don't think Bush would go necessarily with politics.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

It's an opportunity to claim these guys don't have a case, and it allows the defense to allege that it's purely political.

To be honest, there is not one leader from any political party who at the moment has the vision, the agenda or the program for resolving the problems in our nation.

Politics, of course, requires sweat, work, combat, and organization. But these should not be ugly words for and free people.

China has a lot of growth (but it is) a little more difficult in terms of rule of law and regulation in the media sector, given the political aspects of media.

Kinky will get the politicians out of politics, but we need your help to get him on the ballot. Kinky has only a few weeks to collect over 45,000 signatures, and I'll be one of those signatures, and I hope you will, too.

We shall see what the political arm of government does.

I'm a victim of an anti-democratic campaign, a political ambush.

Politicians would be well advised to restrain themselves. This is an issue for the Deutsche Bank, the supervisory board and its chairman.

Any proceedings from this date forward only serve to delay the final resolution of this matter and run counter to the best interests of the Congress, the presidency and the American people, ... We remain convinced that the national interest is best served by ending the process in a way that is fair, speedy and bipartisan.

I didn't have a specific message. I wasn't trying to push any political issues. We are dealing here with love.

The five pledges will decide the future course of Indian politics.

If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clear: One does not deal with terrorists; one does not bargain with terrorists; one kills terrorists.

America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling.