Family Politics Quotes

The problem is my kids are liberal, maybe too liberal, and I have no one to blame but myself because I introduced them to Uncle O.J.

It's innate in me to be a blue-dog Democrat. I'm not saying I'm right or wrong, but that's what I am. My wife and I and our family will do everything we can to support Obama. I like his ideas, I like his energy, and I like the statement he would make for our country to the world.

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Those who had staked most of their personal hopes on RFK are extremely frustrated - & the prospect of anyone ‘in the family’ who didn’t impale him – or herself – on a picket fence without regard to the consequences – suddenly being in a position to pick up all the marbles – that prospect is galling! The same palace guard (now with palace)(or a pretender) find it hard to accept the prospect of a prodigal in-law (let alone son) sitting down their feast.

My mother once used to be a Congress leader.

Theodore Roosevelt had drawn public attention to his attractive family in order to create a bond with ordinary Americans. Eleanor Roosevelt had successfully broached the idea that a First Lady could be nearly as much a public figure as her husband.

Jeb Bush may run for President. Bush presidencies are like 'Caddyshack' movies. They should have stopped with one.

The only bus tours to political events I ever went on with my father were when he was running for president. Why else would you be touring the nation in a bus?

My dad was a Republican. My mom - my mom was mostly a Republican, although she voted for McGovern over Nixon. She was really proud of that. She also did, however, work for Trent Lott.

As son of a Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through the election of 2000, I was.

I love my father, and I believe in him. And he lost to Dan Quayle. I had a hard time understanding how that could happen.

When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.

There's some kind of a thing where when she was Secretary of State she was using her own e-mail instead of the State Department, and I thought finally, a Clinton scandal the entire family can enjoy.

None from my family was in politics. I am a first-generation politician.

The Kennedys formed a Kennedy party.

I told him that when he left office he should become an evangelist and leave his wife to run the country.

My son is not a tactic to be used in political arenas for relevancy and points.

[ Rajiv Gandhi] was such an infinitely more attractive leader than his mother.

What people can't possibly imagine is what it's like to have two presidents who have a relationship as father and son.

My husband is in politics and my kids are already a campaign organ for him and I really love being their mother.

My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics.

Fish have got to swim. Birds have got to fly, and Clintons have to run for office. It's what they do. It's a metabolic urge. That's all they've done their entire life is borrow money from rich people to seek public office.

It's hard to have both parents involved in elective office at the same time.

All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.