Political Priority Quotes

The first priority of the Republican majority is the security of Americans.

I wasn't there for one constituent; I was there for a major economic interest of my state.

As soon as I came in as leader, we had seven weeks to an election, so we had to be entirely focused on the job we had in front of us.

If we've got Democrats, whether they be in the House or the Senate, that are not willing to put our national security as their very top priority and secure our borders, I think it's time that we get someone else in that position and that goes regardless of party.

I've always been a conservative first.

I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.

Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

From my perspective, we as a nation need to make policy a priority and drive the politics as a result of good policy.

Haute politique … to which we all must bend. I was as anxious to send you to the Congo as you were to go but the existence of the State was at stake.

I am the candidate who defends the superiority of politics over the administration, the bureaucracy, the economy, and so I think it is politics which must decide.

I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first.

We have seven months before the election. Our top priority as fiscal conservatives is to make sure President Obama retires.

I would like the refugee crisis to become a new beginning in the Turkish-European relationship. But it would be very problematic if, during this process, human rights were forgotten. Democracy needs to be the priority.

People need to know, before I'm associated with any party, I am an American, and that's what I want to drive home at the RNC.

The iron need to get reelected will always take priority over a relative abstraction like a budget deficit.

There are some men to whom party success is so important that they seem willing to endanger this country.

I confess that when I hear Boris Johnson's slogan let's get Brexit done it sends a chill. Because it's let's get Brexit done so we can focus on the important domestic issues.

A lot of folks look at the political calculation and then determine the policy. I think that's backward.

I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

Leadership is more important than people's political career at times.

The Obama camp, the White House, and the media all condemned Romney before they condemned the attacks. Obama thought it more worthwhile to hit Romney for what he was doing than the terrorists for what they did. Romney got hit first.

I am really two people. I am a private person and a political person. Of course, if there is a conflict, the political person comes first.