Political Ideological Conflict Quotes

I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.

La Follette is the Grand American neo-Copperhead ... at the moment loyally serving one country—Germany.

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

We find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.

Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.

A complete investment in the Obama administration required that any real opposition had to be demonized. The investment in Barack Obama had to be protected.

Politics is an impressionistic art form.

If the Conservative party hasn't got room for Ken Clarke and Philip Hammond and 19 others, there is also a message there to millions of people who vote Conservative, that it's not a party for them. If you go down a divisive route, the scars will be very deep.

A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot.

It is true that a house divided against itself is a house that cannot stand. There is division in the American house now and believing this as I do, I have concluded that I should not permit the Presidency to become involved in the partisan divisions that are developing in this political year. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.

Party service does not require intelligent, independent action, and politics today stands for party fealty more than for governmental ethics

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.

I love political dramas. I love good story-telling.

I've been politically radical my whole life, so when the left attacks, that hurts more.

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

The reason Jeb Bush is not doing well is because of his name. He is part of a long establishment Republican family, and this is not going well with the Republican Party.

Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.

I know that we have to get in there and do something if we want to change the system and get a better government. But the whole task is very daunting. If I join either the Congress or the BJP, I will be forced to follow their systems and then I may not be able to do anything significant to change things.

I'm not into sports, and politics is kind of my sport. I love talking about it and debating it and getting into it. I also think people on both sides of the aisle have real exaggerated, incorrect views of the other side, and that is fascinating to me.

I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.