Quotes about Politics

I think the next president ought to invoke the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution now that we clearly know that that baby inside the mother's womb is a person at the moment of conception.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

I think the American people, with some justification, think that most politicians live in la-la land.

When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic.

No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.

States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers. —PLATO, The Republic

It was after the catastrophe, when they shot the president and machine-gunned the Congress and the army declared a state of emergency. They blamed it on the Islamic fanatics, at the time. Keep calm, they said on television. Everything is under control.

Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving?

If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O!

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.

Jesus was soft on crime. He'd never have been elected anything.

Anybody who suggests that I run for governor is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living in Albany, which is small-town life at its worst.