Political Landscape Quotes

Britain is no longer in the politics of the pendulum, but of the ratchet.

We just delivered the South to the Republican Party for a long time to come.

Politics is downstream from culture.

We have a lot of people who are Republicans, a lot of people who are Democrats, and it's not just because of business reasons.

Politics is dirty. Politics is exciting. Politics is often very, very difficult and disappointing. And I really would rather the world would be a little more like it was when my dad was young, where you knew pretty much where people stood on the great moral issues.

America doesn’t need a third party; it needs a second one.

There can be but two great political parties in this country.

When a third party's demands become popular enough, they are appropriated by one or both of the major parties and the third party disappears. Third parties are like bees: Once they have stung, they die.

Politics is history in the making.

Politics is a thing that I follow because it determines what is going on in my country, but I vote and deal with politicians with a great degree of jaundiced eye.

The E.U. referendum is a major watershed in U.K. history. It will be important for the future of the Conservative party. It will be even more important for the future of our country.

While a truly national third party wouldn't necessarily be bad, smaller niche parties are ill-suited to our federalist system.

Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate.

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

It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.

Forty-eight hours is a long time in politics

Politics is too big a game to feel the absence of a Kamal Haasan.

I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.

American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.

The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.

Federalists, Whigs, Democratic-Republicans; parties are born, parties die, and parties realign themselves to adapt to shifting demographics and attitudes.

Even when we're not talking about Trump, we're talking about Trump.

Nothing Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton did together will ever have as much impact on election results as the partisan makeup of congressional districts around the country.

I have no problem if you want to be a socialist. But for those people who are in the middle, you know, I don't know if you're really welcome in the Democratic Party, and I don't even know who the Republican Party is anymore. I have absolutely no idea.

That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.