Frans Timmermans Quotes

Politics swings like a pendulum.

It is one of the misfortunes of our political system that parties are formed more with reference to controversies that have gone by, than to the controversies which these parties have actually to decide.

I don't agree with Trump on everything.

I don't know any elected Democrats that I get along with.

I can't go out with a Republican.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

I don't agree with the Tories on most things.

I do not personally agree with some of the positions that Mr. Gonzales has advocated, but that should come as no surprise, because I do not agree with many of the proposals made by the man who nominated him, President Bush.

I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.

We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse.

Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

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

Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

The cliche in American politics is that one week is an eternity.

What can equal the caprices of politics?

It is impossible to take politics out of politics.

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

In politics, good gets better; bad gets worse.

In my opinion, the polarization of our politics has mostly been brought about by the massive infusion of money—mostly spent on negative advertising that create divisions among the population that watches television and the two parties.

I haven't agreed with every one of my Republican colleagues or Democratic colleagues on every issue. But I'm supporting Donald Trump because we need change in this country.

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

Politicians have conflicting values but not conflicting knowledge.