Lech Walesa Quotes

I appeal to people all across the political spectrum.

You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

I am not a centrist.

If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

The problem with modern politics is everybody is doing sound bite stuff. In my stump speech, I give 20 minutes on why I think we're off track. And I think people do really want to engage in a serious high-level discussion on how to get the country back on track because people care about their own country.

My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India.

I'm not a shill for the Democratic Party.

The young man who is moved in any way to contemplate an entry into public life … learns first of all to understand that there are two great political organizations, with one of which he must associate himself, learning and echoing its catch-words, accepting its leadership, and steeping himself in the belief that in it are wisdom and truth while the other party is void of both

[Political] Victory is all that matters.

There is nothing that is not political.

When I am asked whether the division between the left and the right still has any meaning, the first thought that comes to my mind is that the person who asks the question is not on the left.

Bigger Than His Party.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

I think the White House is a better place for not having a Steve Bannon in it.

People focus too much on whether there's a Democrat or a Republican in office. It's not like this guy Kim-Jong Un got into power the second Trump got into power. It's not like he wasn't a problem. It's not like we haven't had warmongers. It's not like corporations haven't been the main influence on what we're doing around the world.

Normally, I stay away from politics - unless I'm going to run for president.

My own students say they don't trust anyone who voted for Trump. How can you have a democracy with that?