Quotes about Politics

I decided that I was going to leave State House, and I was going also to step up and step aside so that I give President Peter Mutharika an opportunity to run the country without my interference.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.

The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.

Celebrity gets you access to world leaders.

America has swerved from its ethical center.

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.

I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.

I supported Hillary Clinton. She would have made an excellent president. I didn't think she could get elected. I thought it was too soon.