Quotes about Politics

The inference to which we are brought is, that the CAUSES of faction cannot be removed, and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its EFFECTS. If

The inference to which we are brought is, that the causes of faction cannot be removed, and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects.

Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions. A complete power, therefore, to procure a regular and adequate supply of it, as far as the resources of the community will permit, may be regarded as an indispensable ingredient in every constitution.

Washington doesn't have just a spending problem, or just an entitlement problem, or just a taxing problem. We have a leadership problem. Fix that, and the first three problems are solved.

If you're running for office, it's tough to be an incumbent. It's tough to run out of Washington. It's better to be an outsider. And Establishment support doesn't help; it more likely hurts.

'House of Cards' I've watched since the first day.

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.

Every day, I talk to Democratic and Republican colleagues with lots of ideas about the work we should be doing.

That said, I have come to believe that the more committed one is to leftism, the more likely one is to become meaner.