Quotes about Politics

Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men.

The GOP cannot expect to win the presidency in the future by simply relying on running up big numbers with white voters.

What Republican voters have shown us is that when they have the choice between the real thing and the fake one, they go with the real one every time.

People ask, 'How do you work with the other side?' Well, I start by not saying bad things about them.

For me, it all begins with faith; it begins with what matters most, and I try and put what I believe to be moral truth first. My philosophy of government second. And my politics third.

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan.

The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!

The other parties campaign for parliamentary seats, more or less. We campaign for our principles!

A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.

They have seen in his [Senator Stephen A. Douglas's] round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands. . . . Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.

It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

People in both parties are restless for change, ready to break free of old patterns in Washington.