Sally Quinn Quotes

In a way, the road between Huaraz and the lodge is a metaphor for Peruvian politics. It used to be in good repair, and in some places still is.

What makes this harder is that it is my party that is ruining the country.

I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports!

If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.

I think that the economy, and the political system, has literally become such a disaster I don't know if it's possible to save it.

Politicians are never going to turn this country around. Our country's a mess. The politicians are going to destroy this country. They're weak and they're ineffective.

Politics is such a torment that I would advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

I view the traditional two parties as in some ways very evil. They've become monsters that are out of control. The two parties don't have in mind what's best for Minnesota. The only things that are important to them are their own agendas and their pork. Government's become just a battle of power between the two parties.

Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.

Western history shows that the current legitimacy crises in the Middle East is neither unprecedented in its gravity nor likely to resolve itself in any straightforward manner.

Here's the thing - if Donald Trump is elected president of the United States, in a kind of historical way, it's exciting because we will see the actual last president of the United States. It just won't work after that.

I think politics is a dirty game. We've seen the sides that they take; we've seen the commentary they have had on my father.

Everyone should work in politics to see how horrible it is.

Chicago is the largest city in the country without mayoral term limits. This has led to entrenched leaders, a lack of new ideas and creative thinking and a city government that works for the few, not the many.

I thought I was going to go into politics, but that became disheartening. You see that a lot of stuff doesn't get done, people walk around all self-important, and it's just depressing.

I hate it when Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi get to beat their drums and talk about what a great day it is for America that President Trump failed - when even they know ObamaCare is a total disaster.

India was going though a difficult time in 1997. We had revolving door governments.

Why does a state last a thousand years? Why not 999? Why not a thousand and one? What are the events that finally bring the whole thing down? That is what I am asking.

Even God can't save Tamil Nadu if Jayalalithaa comes back to power again.

Politicians in Washington are useless.

Unfortunately for the American people, the Obama-Clinton-Rice cabal that led to the Benghazi cover-up was far more interested in political-damage control than serious damage assessment.

Benghazi is important because it demonstrates all that is wrong in Washington.

Our political system has been bankrupted by the failures of Congress to act in ways that give meaning to the struggles our constituents endure.

Washington is a complete mess. It's become a venue for partisan bickering, where the needs of the working class just don't matter.