John Sandford Quotes

History is more interesting than politics.

I don't think I can remember a moment in my life where people didn't discuss politics. People discuss politics at the table.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.

My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates.

Political, social and economic realities are shaped by a historical process.

Things are politics for a long time before they become history.

I don't believe that either fascism or communism is the solution or that they may come back on this earth.

Rick Santorum has come out against contraception and against college. He wants us literally to be f**king stupid.

Bill Maher can be pretty good, except when he gets "important." Maher's all over the place politically.

No true patriot could be for Ron Paul.

The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be -- and that's so tempting.

All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best.

I know the President [Barack Obama]. I like him and respect him. That does not mean I agree with all of our government's policies, whether they come from Democrats or Republicans.

I especially cannot imagine anyone who grew up during the Cold War era listening to Donald Trump and saying, you know what, that's a guy that I want to support. It makes zero sense.

Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment.

I disagree with much of what Hillary Clinton's fighting for. I do disagree with her judgment in many cases.

I've been a Hillary Clinton supporter for a long time and I know that is not actually a popular position.

Liberals are constantly wrong. In fact, that's how you rise to the top in liberalism, by being wrong. If you are wrong, and if you are consistently wrong, it's even better. You're really one of them if you're really wrong all the time. Look at Jimmy Carter.

I am a socialist. However, I have to add that what I understand by socialism is exactly the opposite of what many people, or most people, today mean by socialism.

My husband is absolutely opposed to any negative campaigning at all.

In politics, what appears is.

Personally, I never admired communists because they operate on the theory that human beings are nice people.

I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind.

I'm not really a fan of, like, rock stars, movie stars, people like that. I like politics.