Political Ambivalence Quotes

I thought at first I could be completely non-political. Then they told me I had to be part non-political and part political. I found that it was impossible, at least for me. I finally realized there was nothing for it but to be all-political.

If Frank [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] is nominated I won't give one cent to the Democratic Party. He's so wishy-washy.

In every political community there are varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken group on many subjects. Ten degrees to the left of center in good times. Ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally. Here, then, is a lesson in safe logic.

I'm not a policy wonk - I'm somewhere between being undecided and a surrogate.

I would regard it as a great misfortune to run for Mayor and still more to be elected.

The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, a traumatic shock to me, ended any ambivalence I had about the Soviet Union, and all cooperation with Communists in united fronts.

Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.

For politicians neither love nor hate.

Politics was never in our blood and in our family... I will never return to it.

I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me - a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me.

Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidate' is busily engaged in testing the waters.

I get no pleasure from politics; it's not in my character.

Everybody in Mariposa is neither liberal or conservative or else is both.

I’m always amused by politicians running against Washington, when they desperately want to get to Washington.

Al Gore's problem, in my view, is that he never liked politics. He's actually deeply uncomfortable in it but felt he had to do it because of his father. He's much more comfortable in a private sector role and has, in fact, been much more successful in a private sector role, and I admire him for that.

My parents are left-wing, and I would describe myself as that. But also, you know what? I wouldn't describe myself as that. Because I don't have to. Because I'm not a political party. Most people are a little bit of each, and we change our mind on various issues.

For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.