Michael Portillo Quotes

Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.

I met Barack Obama, I read his book, I like him a great deal. I disagree with him on very fundamental issues.

I hold them [politics] to be subject to laws as fixed as matter itself, and to be as fit a subject for the application of the highest intellectual power.

People always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.

If it hadn't been for Senator Sanders, I don't know if I would've been brought back into the fold of politics.

I never took a political science course.

I resent the idea that Israel is part of the political agenda in United States' campaigns, really.

There's a line of thinking about Ted Cruz.

It seems like everybody's weighing in on Trumps campaign - even Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. He said that Trump is 'probably the best thing to happen to politics in a long, long time.' Then Trump was like, 'Well, at least one Cuban loves me.'

Any comparison between the military dictatorship and democracy can only come from those who do not value the Brazilian democracy.

As one person said to me , Republicans know [Donald] Trump is a stain on their party.

At the end of the day,[Mitt] Romney was pro-life, but [Rick] Santorum was more fervently pro-life, and had been for longer. They're all going to repeal Obamacare, but Romney has once endorsed something like it. In the old days, there really were differences on fundamental issues, even on foreign policy, [for which] [Newt] Gingrich, Romney, and Santorum were pretty similar.

In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.

Ted Cruz is a small-government conservative.

Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.

Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.

Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.

Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.

Politics is history in the making.

... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.

Politics are the divine science, after all.

I think that extreme right wing views are not what the American people are looking for right now. They want to see us create jobs.

Essentially, the Tea Party are the Hell's Angels, but with sun visors instead of switch blades. They push macaroni instead of meth. Mess with the Tea Party and they'll put your dog in an American flag sweater on a hot day.