Political Volatility Quotes

Democracy is a fickle employer.

Everything Republicans once claimed to advocate - entitlement reform, free trade, standing up to dictators, encouraging the march of freedom around the world - turns out to be negotiable and reversible, depending on Donald Trump's whims and the furies of his base.

The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.

Michigan will be Democratic in some years and Republican in some years. I don't think we'll ever make the mistake like we did in 2016 and not turn out again.

Republicans tend to be more steadfast in their allegiance, and Democrats read one headline in the 'New York Times,' and the sky is suddenly falling.

A week is a long time in politics. A month is an eternity.

Donald Trump among wishy-washy people, who decide one day they want him, and they want his endorsement, they support him, and the next day they don't. It's much better for him to take the message directly to the people.

Switzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other.

Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.

Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party.

In politics, sunny days and rainy days can change very quickly.

A person in politics can in a few days go from hero to zero …

politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.

It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. [Middle East] is an area where everything is on the brink of explosion.

A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.

In a sense, whites who were always sort of the unthinking majority who didn't think of themselves necessarily as one among many interest groups but is simply the dominant group, now as whites become - are close to becoming a minority of Americans, are becoming a political interest group. And that's what Donald Trump is playing to. And it's a really dangerous, volatile game.

That's politics. Your friend one day is your enemy the next and vice versa.

American politics is always somewhat fluid. In this age of social media, it means that voters can swing back and forth.

As the crisis in Syria grows and the humanitarian tragedy becomes more clear, I appreciated Prime Minister Netanyahu's perspective on the changes and volatility in the region.

It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.

You never know what'll happen in politics.

Politics is pretty much an up and down business

A week is a long time in politics.

Nobody builds a permanent majority in politics, if they did It wouldn’t be politics.

My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility.