Political Disadvantage Quotes

The men of middling property and poor men can never be safe in a mixed representation with the men of over-grown property.

The poor don't vote all the time.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

Can I take on the Republican Party machine? Get real. No. Zero percent.

We [conservatives] are at a disadvantage in the political discussion in America. Most of the participants are of the left. The media, academia and Hollywood … are of the left. We need soft money to offset that disadvantage.

While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.

It is a handicap to any man to succeed a member of his own party as President. He has little patronage with which to reward his personal supporters.

As conservatives, we know the media is stacked against us. We know popular culture is often stacked against us. We know the narrative has been written without our voice despite our best efforts.

For the most part, congressional Republicans represent people who are whiter, older and richer than most Americans, and our creaky old political system gives those Americans disproportionate influence over public policy.

I've been saying, even against me, the system is rigged. When I ran as a - well, for president, I could see what was going on with the system, and the system is rigged. What I'm saying is they're not necessarily wrong. I mean, there are certainly people where unfortunately that comes into play. And I'm not saying that, I can really relate it very much to myself.

We don't have a big party. We don't have election funding. We don't have television time.

If the only people who can succeed in politics are people who go in at 25, that'd be too bad. That'd be a shame.

Vice presidents are candidates for political castration.

Gen Y is depicted as self-centred and apathetic when it comes to politics, but it doesn't help that we are largely overlooked. There have been policies to woo parents, pensioners and the sick, but the young do not appear to rank high on any political agenda.

It doesn’t matter, this young man will never go far in politics.

I get a kick out of Democrats thinking they know how handicap a GOP race.

The Tories will do everything they can to squash anything threatening to them and I think the involvement of young people in politics is threatening to them and we just don't really care.

American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

Most of my time as a legislator, I served in the minority. So I'm used to getting the heel of a loaf of bread.

That's the tragedy of our country. Everyone is an inexperienced politician.

We were just at the beginnings of a recovery [in 2010]. And the, you know, whoever is president at that point is gonna get hit and his party's gonna get hit. That then means that suddenly you've got a redistricting in which a lot of state legislatures are now Republican. They draw lines that give a huge structural advantage in subsequent elections.