Political Discussions Quotes

Not until my fourteenth or fifteenth year did I begin to come across the word 'Jew,' with any frequency, partly in connection with political discussions.... For the Jew was still characterized for me by nothing but his religion, and therefore, on grounds of human tolerance, I maintained my rejection of religious attacks in this case as in others. Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.

On the Wednesday evening - that is, the day I saw her Majesty on this particular point - I had the opportunity of conferring with all those whom I proposed to submit to her Majesty as Ministers.

I've been on MSNBC and CNN and Fox News. Not just Fox News, not just CNN.

Once you get into the [Donald] Trump stuff, you get people going, "I didn't come here to have my political views bashed."

I saw a survey and it is that NFL fans are fed up with listening to players talk about politics.

I was able to do something that people can't do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.

Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions.

People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India.

I never spoke about politics, with the exception of Election Night.

President Obama had a few historians at the White House for a couple of dinners. I was lucky enough to be one of those asked, and he was very interested in Ronald Reagan, and I came away feeling that.

I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.

I'm excited to bring a dose of moderate, rational conservatism to 'The Cycle.'

[I talk politics with Ted Turner] quite often. Usually with a great deal of excitement, because he has one political view and I have another. Despite our politics,we've agreed to be friends.

Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that.

It was gonna be a race [2016] that set a foundation for the Left in the future. But given the math, I didn't think he was gonna make it. And so I started to shift to Hillary [Clinton] and to discussions of the platform and discussions of what to do.

[My father] was interested. He read the newspapers and read Time and U.S. News and World Report and people in stores would come along, you know, and they would talk politics.

My husband has said even he doesn't know my politics. In the nonromantic-compliment category, that's a good one.

But I'm proud to come from a family of Republicans and, yes, we have some spirited discussions in our family.

I ask people who they vote for sometimes. I think it is just trying to get to know somebody.

Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.

I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.

I turn down invitations to events where I know there will be politicians.

Politics scared the crap out of me because I didn't grow up in a family where we talked about anything, really, except, 'Pass the peas, and do this.'... We didn't really have political discussions at the dinner table. I didn't learn how to watch or listen to politics.

Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis.

I never talk openly about my political beliefs.