Reuven Rivlin Quotes

It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.

Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.

Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option.

Our two-party system has served us well over the years, but never better than in those times of great challenge when we came together not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans united in a common cause.

Today our country is being psychologically divided by the confusion and the suspicions that are bred in the United States Senate to spread like cancerous tentacles of "know nothing, suspect everything" attitudes.

I once had considerable expectations from Congress, But since they adopted the fiery resolves of … Massachusetts, all hope of good from them has vanished

I am not Left or Right. I believe in nationalism, patriotism, the federal structure, democracy, and the poor.

In truth, the legacy that President Obama's agenda will leave on history is the poisoning of the tree of liberty.

No government can maintain the public's confidence if it is outwardly split.

Because of our peculiar electoral law, the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not.

Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own.

When a president, as Trump does, demonises opponents as an un-American mob trying to destroy the country, it is not a lunatic who tries to harm them, it is a patriot.

When your country is in dire straits, it doesn't matter whether you're a social democrat or not.

We now live in a very polarized nation, divided not between Republicans and Democrats but between those who want to defend our liberties and those who want to defend politically correct stupidities.

We don't have to settle for Freedom Caucus tactics - those guys are tyrants. We don't have to accept that. In fact, we can't and have this country be what this country really can be.

What we don't need to work toward is polarizing America any greater than it is. Look, I'm up here in Washington, D.C., in the Congress of the United States, and we have, all day, a lot of verbal vomit that is doing enormous damage.

When liberals dismiss all Trump supporters as racists, this only fuels their anger.

I want to make sure that people understand that we know the difference between President Trump and the good-hearted people and the good-natured people of the United States. We know they're not one and the same.

The Democrats want to bring in the Third World because these are, by and large, people who have no experience with Constitutional democracy.

I get along with the Democrats, but please - I'm not their hero.

Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.

I would like to be one of the people responsible for getting Elizabeth Warren out of politics. She's a nightmare. The Left's holding her up as the second coming of Hillary Clinton; Lord knows we don't need the first.

Ever since Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. election, I've been trying to expand my scope to understand the thought processes of people who don't see the world, or humanity, as I do.

I am basically a supporter of Barack Obama - it is not easy to be a post-partisan president in a hyper-partisan era.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.