Politician Quotes

My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

I'm nobody's deputy. I am who I am. I'm my own person.

I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's a form of taxation without representation. I don't think we can do that.

I want to be one that is willing to do things that are not easy but that need to be done.

I think I was about 30 before I realized that not every family talks about the presentment clause on a regular basis.

I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.

I don't want a government shutdown. I don't think anyone does.

What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.

We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served the best health care, the best educational opportunities, and the best job training available. They deserve nothing less.

We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must have sufficient congressional debate and oversight before ever putting another U.S. solider in harm's way.

We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.

Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.

I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush.

I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.

As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.

The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.

You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year.

There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.

In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years.

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations.

I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.

For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.

First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will.

As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh.

And this system sorted out the Chechen war in just 20 days. This way, I used the President's power, he didn't use me. It wasn't hard for me to leave - it isn't my scene. I have nothing to do there.