Ana Navarro Quotes

Politics swings like a pendulum.

Nothing ever stays in the middle. You always go from one extreme to the other, and politics is certainly that way.

It [is] natural that in the vibration of the political pendulum, it should go from one extreme to another.

We Republicans came to Washington to change it, and Washington changed us.

Whenever a political party is out of power for a number of years and finally is back in power, they always overreach.

Political pendulums swing hard and feed on stark contrast.

I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.

Politics is cyclical.

This is just not the Democratic Party we used to know.

Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.

There were more moderate Republicans in those days than there are today.

It is impossible to take politics out of politics.

The pendulum does swing in the congressional picture.

One man’s democratization is another man’s destabilization.

Nobody builds a permanent majority in politics, if they did It wouldn’t be politics.

Is the balance of power a fixed and unalterable standard? Or is it not a standard perpetually varying, as civilization advances, and as new nations spring up, and take their place among established political communities?

In politics, good gets better; bad gets worse.

Social change … almost inevitably leads to the rise of new political actors demanding a voice and a share of power.

There can be no finality in politics.

Since when is politics consistent?

New ideas rarely come from the moderate parties in The Hague or Washington, in Brussels or Westminster. The world's political centres are not the breeding ground for true change, but rather where it comes home to roost.

One of the things I'm keen on doing is really revealing the degree to which the conservative movement, and by extension the Republican Party, has become a racket.

We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.

The center of gravity of the American people is way to the left of the center of gravity of Congress and, in many ways, to the left of the national Democratic Party.

Elections come and go, people win and lose, that is part of politics. It doesn't anyway change things on the ground.