Quotes about Changing Political Landscape

Michael T. Flynn

I grew up as a Democrat in a very strong Democratic family, but I will tell you that the Democratic Party that exists in this country is not the Democratic Party I grew up around.

Mara Liasson

If [Hillary] Clinton can come close in those two traditionally red states, it will be because of the diverse, educated populations around Atlanta and Phoenix. And it will be a sign that Arizona and Georgia are on their way to becoming the new battleground states.

Anne Applebaum

The old battle between Christian Democrats and Social Democrats is now meaningless, not least because the social structures that underlay those parties, the church and the unions, have faded away. Nationalists and populists understood this change earlier; now the rest of the political world needs to understand that the political lines have been redrawn and it's time to change.

Gerald R. Ford

I hope we do have a young lady at some point become president of the United States. I can tell you how I think it will happen, because it won’t happen in the normal course of events.

Either the Republican or Democrat political party will nominate a man for president and a woman for vice president. And the woman and man will win. So you’ll end up with a president, a male, and a vice president, a female. And in that term of office of the president, the president will die, and the woman will become president under the law—or Constitution.

And once that barrier is broken, from then on, men better be careful, because they’ll have a hard, hard time ever even getting a nomination in the future. But that’s the way it’s going to happen, and I think it’ll probably come sometime in the next four or eight years.

Former President Gerald Ford, took questions after a speech to schoolchildren at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum in West Branch, Iowa, October 18, 1989. His response above is to a question from a girl in the audience: “Mr. Ford, what advice would you give a young lady wanting to become president of the United States?”

Zbigniew Brzezinski

The political awakening that is happening worldwide is a major challenge for America, because it means that the world is much more restless. It's stirring. It has aspirations which are not easily satisfied. And if America is to lead, it has to relate itself somehow to these new, lively, intense political aspirations, which make our age so different from even the recent past.

Bill Ayers

There was a sense of palpable relief that George [W.] Bush was leaving and that the Republicans had slipped back and that was a wonderful feeling.

Jaime Harrison

There's Lindsey Graham 1.0 and then there's Lindsey Graham 2.0. I could not beat Lindsey Graham 1.0. That was the John McCain-Lindsey Graham.

Tony Blair

One thing I'm not sure of - and it's a very open question - is whether the type of politics that I represent really has had its day or not. Now I obviously believe passionately it hasn't, that it's still the answer and not the problem, and, you know, the evidence points both ways.

Changing Political Landscape Quotes