Political Nostalgia Quotes

Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.

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.

I’m a lover of the old Republic, and I deeply resent the empire that our Presidents put in its place.

Nostalgia for dead tyrants and the longing for heroes are unhealthy, and they can result in the deification of a Saddam as easily as a Havel or Mandela.

The New Deal exists principally on an emotional plane for Obama. To him, the New Deal is something you play like a song, to make you or your constituents feel better.

What happened to the America we grew up in, the America of Truman, Ike, JFK and Reagan?

My favorite politician was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, who reminded me of Tom Mix, and there wasn't any way to explain that to anybody.

I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.

I'm not living in the past, I don't want to go back - I don't want to "Make America Great Again." No, no, no.

The Right doesn't usually threaten to leave the country. When the Right feels threatened, it just declares it is going to invent a time machine to take the country back so that America can be 'great again.'

I can't admit the Duke of Bedford ever was radical; God knows! I wish everybody now was a little so!

My particular passion for Lincoln dates back from my earliest memories of politics.

There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.

Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.

I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.

Unlike his predecessors, Obama is not big on 'Masterpiece Theatre' nostalgia.

I keep on reading the Morning Star newspaper to see if there's any hope, but it seems to be in the 19th century; it seems to be written for dropped-out, middle-aged liberals.

I've defended the Clintons longer than I've been a liberal, but I don't have any nostalgia for that.

In the U.S.A., we want to sing along with the chorus and ignore the verses, ignore the blues. . . No one is going to hold up a cigarette lighter in a stadium to the tune of "mourn together, suffer together." City on a hill, though -- that has a backbeat we can dance to. And that's why the citizens of the United States not only elected and reelected Ronald Reagan; that's why we ARE Ronald Reagan.

While romanticizing the Senate of yore would be a mistake, it was certainly better in my father's time.

I was born to a Likud which had light; there were no shadows.

The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.

Even when the [Ronald] Reagan revolution happened, it was in large way, a "'Let's make America great again' without saying that" kind of a movement, don't you feel? It was kind of a throwback to an earlier generation.

When I say 'president,' I still mean Roosevelt - wisely, I think.

Compared with other recent presidents whose stumbles and failures have assaulted the national self-esteem, memories of Kennedy continue to give the country faith that its better days are ahead. That's been reason enough to discount his limitations and remain enamored of his presidential performance.