political analogy Quotes

Pat Buchanan is a … crazed Davy Crockett running around the parapets of Nixon’s Alamo.

I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.

I would argue [Donald]Trump is the [Barack] Obama of this election cycle.

If there's a swarm of bees outside an open window, it might be a good idea to close the window, even if a few bees have already flown into the house. Somehow, Democrats who oppose shutting the border don't see the analogy.

My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

I think to compare Germany to the Third Reich is utterly ludicrous.

The Michigan Republican primary apparently is tighter than Willie Nelson's headband.

A Black man voting for the Republicans makes about as much sense as a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.

I have a Reagan-like ability to believe in my own data.

If politics were a high school movie, Republicans would be the jocks and mean girls locking hapless freshmen inside their lockers and threatening to call in their rich parents if the teachers complain - plus the broke kids who are always willing to strong-arm homework for them from the nerds.

You can certainly draw a picture of 2016 which makes it look like the 1930s, which, of course, is what everyone is doing.

Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.

Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.

The typical American corporation is a shareholders' republic the same way that China is a peoples' republic.

[Margaret Thatcher] was pretending that running a country was like running a household, which she knew wasn't true.

Being chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is like being a mosquito in a nudist colony.

Herman Cain compared his run for president to Moses leading his people out of Egypt. Cain said it took Moses 40 years to lead his people out of Egypt, but he could do it in 30 minutes or less.

They say California's the big burrito; Texas is a big taco right now. We want to follow that through. Florida is a big tamale.

Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself.

Politics is like driving. To go backward put it in R. To go forward put it in D.

Politics is a lot like football. Both involve people working in a team. One week you can be top of the league, the next week, you might slip a place. But I've never for one minute wanted to give up my devotion for my team.

It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease.

Being an ex-England manager, one that failed to qualify for the World Cup, is like being a dead politician.

When you're coaching at Kentucky, you're held to a different standard, and like in politics, there is a core group that absolutely loves you, and everyone else is trying to unseat you in any way they can - anything to trip you up; that's what it is. If you're not up to that, then don't coach at Kentucky.