Politician Quotes

You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end... their only answer is to yell racism and hide.

What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.

The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.

If you're not brave, you're not going to be free.

If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians?

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.

Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.

I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America.

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.

And by the way I don't object if people want to attack me, that's their right. All I'm suggesting that it's not going to be very effective and that people are going to get sick of it very fast. And the guys who attacked each other in the debates up to now, every single one of them have lost ground b

We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.

The bigotry question goes both ways. There's a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concerning the other side. None of it gets covered by the news media.

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

You can't trust anybody with power.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

Violence is always the last option, but if that time comes, it is the ONLY option.

The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails.

The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities.

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.