Bonnie Raitt Quotes

There are certain things in politics you cannot stop. You just can’t stop. You just have to grin and bear it.

Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.

I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.

There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

Ronald Reagan got elected by launching his campaign in Mississippi in a very racist way.

The worst mistake Ronald Reagan ever made was to accept George W. Bush as his running mate.

Since you can’t do anything about it, don't worry about the weather or the government.

The military budget got out of control and the tax cuts were helping the wealthy …. President Reagan was less and less interested in what I had to say

I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that things are in a muddle, and I have no power or vocation to set them right in ever so little a degree.

Evangelicals overwhelmingly voted for Ronald Reagan - not because he was the most religious candidate, but he possessed the quality evangelicals felt like was most important, and that is leadership.

The first time I began to really think about politics was in fifth grade, during President Reagan's first term.

Endorsing Ronald Reagan in 1980, Kissinger threw in with America's new militarists, who would jump-start a revived Cold War and drive to retake the Third World.

Politically at that time, with Thatcher in Britain and Reagan in the White House, it wasn't looking too great for the Left. And we were always on the left.

This is a true story. The day after Reagan won, I was walking into the courthouse when someone said that they'd bet Reagan would appoint me U.S. attorney.

I changed to Republican when Reagan became president because I wanted to see a change to years of Democrat-run Senate. And I voted Republican until Obama. I think he's terrific.

You got to take a deep breath and give up. The system is rigged against you.

With situations that you have no power over, there is no point in worrying about one thing or another. Why think about things that you can't control?

Reagan is the subject of ongoing political debate, and a lot of liberals don't want to take Reagan any more seriously than they did when he was president. I understand why they don't, but they should.

There are things we control - but things that are not in control, no point wasting time and energy into that.

You can't control everything.

I've stopped many things such as healthy eating. What's the point? In this post-truth era, I feel increasingly powerless.

I still subscribe to the theory that Ronald Reagan once pronounced: that I will never speak ill will of my fellow Republican.