Quotes about Politics

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

Three months is a lifetime in politics.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

Reasonable people can differ on whether or not we should have gone into Iraq.

Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.

I would never, ever in my life say, 'I want to go to Washington to heal the soul of Washington.'

voters base their decisions on values as much as any other factor.

constituents. Many of them greeted their Congressman

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

I believe in lower taxes. I believe in more efficient government. I believe in reducing bureaucracy. I believe that we shouldn't have lobbyists who can go in or former government workers who can come back and lobby.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.