Paddy Ashdown Quotes

I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American.

I'm obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run.

It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.

Newt Gingrich would cream Barack Obama in a debate.

Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.

It isn't about liberals and conservatives. It's about who has better programs.

Politics is my life. If I had a hobby, it would be politics.

I have good friends who are politicians on both sides.

My view is that politics should be on the basis of issues.

With politics, everyone - your neighbour, acquaintances, anyone you ever meet - has an opinion. Particularly about what Arvind Kejriwal should be doing.

I don't know why, but I've had an interest and passion for politics.

I consider politics very boring.

Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions.

Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.

Over the years I've never written or made movies about political themes 'cause while they do have current critical importance, in the large, large scheme of things, only the big questions matter and the answers to those big questions are very, very depressing.

It is impossible, maybe undesirable, to take partisanship out of the political process.

I don't consider myself a serious and social political critic.

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else.

The question is: How do we succeed in Iraq? And you don't succeed by leaving before the mission is complete, like some in this political process are suggesting.

In an interview last night, Rick Perry criticized Mitt Romney for flip-flopping on the issues. Romney said that Perry has no idea what he's talking about. Then he added, 'But he does know what he's talking about.'

America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.

Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I or the ANC ever supported. It is a primitive way of contending with an opponent

Bill Clinton is the guy that said, "The era of Big Government is over." Whether or not he meant it or not, he said it.

Spending comes just as natural to liberals in Minnesota and the Minnesota legislature as bashing decency comes to the editorial board of our major metropolitan newspapers.