Political Mindset Quotes

The key ingredient of politics is the idea that all of society's ills can be cured politically. It's like a cookbook where the recipe for everything is to fry it. The fruit cocktail is fried.

The [Hillary] Clinton campaign was still operating with a White House mentality.

I am invariably and have been since adolescence inimical to the Republican mind which shows at the most inflated size the bad qualities of the bourgeoisie rather than the good qualities of the middle class which the Democrats call forth.

I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts.

When I fight elections, I don't think about results whether it is assembly or Lok Sabha polls.

The progressive and liberal mindset believes that to every problem there is a Washington, D.C., solution.

My friends tell me that I have the wrong temperament for politics.

I have found a certain type calls himself a Liberal...Now I always thought I was a Liberal. I came up terribly surprised one time when I found out that I was a Right-Wing Conservative Extremist, when I listened to everybody's point of view that I ever met, and then decided how I should feel. But this so-called new Liberal group, Jesus, they never listen to your point of view.

... the whole of society in Washington is to some degree political. It is like no other capital city known to me, in that political thinking, the whole business, technical and personal, of politics, is not diluted by an equal interest in art, industry, amusement, anything you like. I don't meant that these are non-existent in Washington -- only that they are subdued to the ruling passion.

The believing mind reaches its perihelion in the so-called Liberals. They believe in each and every quack who sets up his booth inthe fairgrounds, including the Communists. The Communists have some talents too, but they always fall short of believing in the Liberals.

We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal.

I understand that that's the theory of the case for [Donald] Trump supporters and it's what Donald Trump says, and it's possible that that is actually the case.

At twenty every one is republican.

Those are the liberals who don't want to win. Those are the liberals who are in love with noble defeats, and I'm sick and tired of noble defeats.

I guess politicians can be excused for thinking the electorate is stupid because they keep winning reelection. If you were Barbara Boxer or Harry Reid and you kept being reelected, you'd have to think, 'Half of my state is stupid.' But then you wouldn't be smart enough to think that if you had their brains.

certain kinds of people become Republicans and certain kinds of people become Democrats, and ... it's more than a matter of party affiliation. It's a way of thinking and being.

Something really serious has shifted in the minds of Republicans and certainly others.

We have come to discover what we suspect is a new political mindset emerging among a younger generation of political leaders socialized on Internet communications. Their politics are less about right versus left and more about centralized and authoritarian versus distributed and collaborative.

I think the president's quite comfortable being the underdog. I think he's happy to run this race from - as if he were behind the whole time.

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

For the average American, the message is clear. Liberalism is no longer the answer. It is the problem.

For a long time, many Republicans thought if they just took two aspirin and laid down, [Donald] Trump would go away.

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.