Reza Aslan Quotes

It's politically impossible for any member of Congress to make a public statement condemning or criticizing the policies of Israel. It would be political suicidal for them to do so.

The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.

I will say that I think Israel enjoys strong bipartisan support in the United States. It's really above and beyond American politics.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

When you're in politics sometimes you step on toes and they come back and kick you in the backside.

If you [members of Congress] vote against us, we're going to throw your ass out of office.

Israel is a country of six million people. They need the U.S. It used to be bipartisan on Israeli politics. You never messed with that relationship. The fact that [ Benjamin] Netanyahu is willing to do that, I thought would horrify voters more than it turned out it did.

Benjamin Netanyahu, understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.

I know Donald Trump. I know him very well. And I think his attitude, his support for Israel is clear.

I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy not approved by the Jews.

Capitol Hill is Israeli occupied territory.

I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me.

It's frustrating because their fingerprints are all over this. If anybody, in my estimation, is disqualified from having anything further to do with this nation's economy or health care or immigration, it's the Democrat Party.

There are certain types of genres that are impossible in China. Ghost stories, something too graphic, too violent, and of course if it's too political. Other than that, it will be fine.

Global stability - economic as well as political - is at risk.

America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.

The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

George W. Bush's position on illegal immigration is a perfect example of a political compromise. A true conservative would have built a border fence, dug a moat and stationed troops on the border long ago.

We need more Democrats in the Senate - like Custer needed more arrows.

Mike Huckabee said he's the only person who has fought the Clinton political machine and won. As opposed to Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, who's the only person who fought a fax machine and lost.

The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism.

[Saddam Hussein] could have easily reconstituted a program. He was a threat to peace before we went in. He'd have been a threat to peace had we left him in power. Oftentimes history judges you on the decisions you make.

Putting Americans at risk for a political reason I think is wrong and I think it's unfortunate.

It's almost impossible to make the case that Bush is a conservative. That may be good; that may be bad.

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.