Gloria Steinem Quotes

Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms.

Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.

I'd rather be underestimated by the polltakers than by the voters.

After a national crisis, it’s never too early for a partisan debate in Washington.

No politician is any longer interested in the question whether a measure is fit to produce the ends aimed at. What alone counts for him is whether the majority of the voters favor or reject it.

All the way back to 2010, the takeover of Congress, there is an unnerved part of the public that understands the history of Hillary Clinton. We've seen her for decades. They understand Donald Trump. There's no disclosure needed there. The sour grapes that we are experiencing isn't going to make a better tasting wine for the Democrats in the future.

Politicians around the world are very different, but they all have one thing in common: The first thing they respond to is public opinion.

You have to be ready for anything. It's a good reminder about democracy. Voters can tell you to carry on, or chuck you out. You've got to be ready for both.

Conventional wisdom holds that the public disproportionately blames Republicans for government shutdowns. The disproportionate election of Republicans to the U.S. Senate following the Republican-led shutdown of 2013 should have put that canard to rest.

If I were afraid of polls, I never would've been elected in two landslide elections, leading a highest percentage in our state's last election for governor. If I were afraid of polls, we wouldn't have privatized our charity hospital system, we wouldn't cut our state budget 26%, wouldn't have cut over 30,000 state government bureaucrats, wouldn't have done statewide school choice. Here's the real record.

Every time a Republican wins the White House, whenever Republicans win control of Congress, the Drive-Bys always claim that the message is voters want a balanced and divided government.

The Republicans, specifically those of the House of Representatives, are responsible for undermining the confidence of the public that Government can help people.

The Republicans ought to be nowhere near trying to help Obama save his bacon. But they don't think that's what they're doing, I'm convinced. You talk about trauma and the need for therapy, I really think that the Republicans have been genuinely psychologically traumatized by decades of media criticism.

I will be the first to admit that getting votes and getting an audience are two different things. For example, a politician really can't be elected if he's hated by half the people. A talk show host, however, can be an overwhelming national phenomenon while being hated by half the people.

There are a lot of people who go to Washington or go to their state houses with a personal ambition in mind.

There is obviously a gap between the public's perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite's perception.

If you think your average Trump voter in Ohio hates Washington, you should see what Washington thinks about the Trump voter in Ohio.

If you're a conservative, you think I'm Satan.

To join in the political fray, I don't think it convinces anyone. It just becomes a talking point on CNN.

A true relief effort for hurricane victims is not a partisan issue. However, in Washington we are notorious for making our jobs far more difficult than they need to be.

Opinion polls sponsored by newspapers were traditionally meant to bring to the fore the mood of the people objectively.

The people in Iowa know that Washington isn't working. It's devolved into partisan politics and a lot of gridlock and obstruction.

The Democrats are besides themselves because they don't understand Trump. They don't understand: you don't get between the American people - because Americans are upset.

I don't really worry what outside groups who score votes think. My job is to represent the people.

No one expects the tone of an election to be mild-mannered, least of all a presidential one.