Quotes about Politics

I'm not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me.

The trouble with Democrats is that they all want to run for President

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

I fully understand it's important to maintain the separation of church and state. We don't want the state to become the church, nor do we want the church to become the state.

People need security of the mind. Why do they want democracy? Because it can give them freedom and security in a balanced way.

[Michelle Obama] used to say to our friends, "Barack's exactly the kind of guy I want to be president. I just wish he didn't want to do it when I was married to him."

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

The American people are tired of being told. They're tired of being told that this is as good as it gets. They're tired of hearing politicians in both parties tell us that we'll get to that tomorrow while we pile a mountain range of debt on our children and our grandchildren.

I look up to the older generation of men - Arthur Scargill, Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn - but my main role model has been my step-granddad Jim. He's brilliant, very political, quite eccentric.

I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.

The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today.

What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life--especially one's politics?