Quotes about Politics
I tell you why I don't think I will ever vote for a Democrat, if I may say so. Because for me, the number one issue is right to life, and I don't think the Democrats are very good on the right-to-life issue.
— Ben Stein
We can score political points. We can try to advance some important initiatives. But at some point, it takes sober-minded, responsible conservative leaders to identify when you've pushed as far as you can and to have the courage to go back and face the electorate and explain to them why you voted the way you did.
— Todd Young
I think that Gov. Huckabee is one of us. I know that a lot of the other candidates try to talk like evangelicals, but he's actually one of us. He believes like we do on all the issues, which energizes me as a voter.
— Jerry Falwell, Jr.
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.
— Shirley Chisholm
The GOP cannot expect to win the presidency in the future by simply relying on running up big numbers with white voters.
— Mark McKinnon
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.
— Andrew Gillum
People ask, 'How do you work with the other side?' Well, I start by not saying bad things about them.
— John Delaney
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.
— Mike Pence
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.
— Joseph Brodsky
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!
— Abraham Kuyper
The other parties campaign for parliamentary seats, more or less. We campaign for our principles!
— Abraham Kuyper
A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.
— Abraham Lincoln