Political Impact Quotes

It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.

It's CNN who really should hold Trump accountable. And because they are trading the short-term fix of increased ratings by focusing on Trump drama - and I'm not saying they shouldn't cover the Russian investigations, of course they should - but the blanket coverage, it's not about news values. It is about ratings. And it comes at a tremendous cost because Trump supporters are fully defended against this. As far as they're concerned, this is a vast conspiracy, it's fake news, it doesn't impact their daily lives, it makes them see Trump as a victim, which he wants to be seen as.

I think it is very good for the country, for the world, and especially for the Democrats that Harry Reid is retiring.

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.

I don't think the people are going to change their opinion on the health care plan because President Obama has now won the Nobel Peace Prize.

I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.

Politicon should be applauded for recognizing the increasing impact of technology, not only on American social and economic systems but on the very structure of our system of politics.

Journalism is now not only reflecting what is happening, it is affecting what is happening. Governments all over the world watch CNN.

President Donald Trump seems to have made me an alien.

I love Texans. And Texas is clearly the crown jewel of Super Tuesday.

Some say politics means destruction to labor organizations, but the reverse is the fact.

Science in our technical age has social, economic, and political functions, and however remote one's own work is from technical application it is a link in the chain of actions and decisions which determine the fate of the human race.

The values of the Left cripple human beings, weaken cities, make it difficult for us to in fact survive as a country.

Hillary Clinton wants to put all the miners out of business.

How different our national perspective would be had Johnson, rather than Nixon, served from 1969 to 1973.

I'm not sure gay marriage was an issue that made or didn't make any single election that I can think of.

The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball. Less people killed. It wouldn't have affected the world on a planetary level. Sure, there would have been little things. There would have been scandals and kind of numbskull things here and there .

Simply as an exercise in efficient politics, Obama '08 rewrote the textbook. His accomplishment was historic and one that transformed how race and politics intersect in our society. Obama is the leading edge of this change, but his success is merely the ripple in a pond that grows deeper every day.

No man ever exercised less influence in the Senate or the House of Representatives than he, but no man ever exercised more power as a political leader.

Politics changes lives. You would expect me, as a politician, to say that. But I don't say it as a politician: I say it as someone whose own life was changed.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

I was driven years ago to the conclusion that political considerations had not hurt the character of appointments here [the supreme court].

[Barack Obama to be] much worse [than George W. Bush].

Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices.

I would think, as an artist, it's inescapable that you'll be affected by the world around you.