Quotes about Politics

I would use the debt limit. I don't want to say - I want to be unpredictable, because, you know, we need unpredictability. Everything is so predictable with our country.

Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much.

For me, running for office is never about trying to destroy an opponent, be it Democratic or Republican. It really ought to be about how can we solve some problems that we're facing.

I don't think that John Kerry is the Messiah or the Democratic Party is the answer, but I don't like the evangelical community blessing the Republican Party as some kind of God-ordained instrument for solving the world's problems.

Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

We are all Federalists, and we are all Republicans.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, & talk by the hour? That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

you cannot have a political solution for a spiritual problem. You must have spiritual solutions for spiritual problems!