Politics : (166)

" I remember ‘The Shepherd’s Dog’ record being not necessarily a political record, but a reaction to socio-political situations in America. And it didn’t manifest itself as protest or propaganda songs, but there’s a lot of surreal imagery that was born out of really me being surprised Bush got re-elected in ’04. " - Samuel Ervin Beam

" If the economy is still going forward, even at 40 miles an hour, 50 miles an hour, I think most people will stick with President Obama. I think people look at politics like they hire a plumber. I hire you to fix the bad pipe. If you fix it, I’ll rehire you. If you don’t fix it, I’m not going to rehire you. " - Dick Gephardt

" What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we’d have what you’d call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes. " - Olympia Snowe

" National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness. " - Phyllis Schlafly

" Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith. And because the Democratic Party was taken over by the aggressive secular guys, they became hostile not just to conservative Catholics and evangelical Christians, but Orthodox Jews and Muslims and Mormons. " - Grover Norquist

" Obama rammed through Obamacare legislation without a single Republican vote. " - Ben Shapiro

" I was never a fan of Barack Obama’s bipartisanship routine. " - Thomas Frank

" Sadly, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is more interested in making hollow political statements than in working to solve problems. " - Nancy Mace

" Politics has always been personal for me. You know, growing up, I was in a very politically conscious household. We engaged with intellectuals and artists and academics from around the world who were thinking critically about politics and the intersection of politics and public life. " - Chesa Boudin

" I want to place the facts before the people. Tell them about the greediness of Congress and how it divided the Telugu people and destroyed the state for political gains. " - N. Chandrababu Naidu