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Quotes about politics
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Our slogan is let's put the party back in politics. Politics ought to be fun. It shouldn't be just boring meetings. (Beatty Warren)
Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom. (Beatty Warren)
The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out. (Beatty Warren)
When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism. (Beatty Warren)
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“Three months is a lifetime in politics,” (Beatty Warren)
“We can rattle our sabers all we want but, realistically, we don't have troops for an invasion [Iran] and surgical strikes aren't going to work.” (Beatty Warren)
“Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy, we have policies that are accelerating the most destructive trends of the global economy.” (Beatty Warren)
“I didn't see the weapons of mass destruction at the time, I didn't think there was an imminent threat from Saddam Hussein.” (Beatty Warren)
“John Kerry believes in America.” (Beatty Warren)
“In the end, ... that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism, or do we participate in a politics of hope?” (Beatty Warren)
“We as Democrats have not been very interested in poverty or issues relating to the inner city as much as we should have. Think about the last presidential campaign: It's pretty hard to focus a moment on which there was any attention given.” (Beatty Warren)
“The encouraging thing is that in the aftermath of this fiasco everybody is outraged and the generosity of white suburban Republicans as well as black liberal Democrats indicates that the country wants better from its government and wants better from its politics, ... The burden is on us as Democrats, the burden is on me as a U.S. senator to help bridge that gap.” (Beatty Warren)
“I think a good place to start would be for both Democrats and Republicans to say ? we are willing to experiment and invest on anything that works,” (Beatty Warren)
“What people want to know is who has a set of concrete plans to help them send their kids to college, or save for retirement.” (Beatty Warren)
“we are a couple of U.S. senators.” (Beatty Warren)
“The Russian Federation only allows [international] departures from three airports in the country, not from Perm,” (Beatty Warren)
“In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, now you have these dispersed power centers, ... They are clearly still working out the kinks.” (Beatty Warren)
“There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.” (Beatty Warren)
“To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of the president, for example, that we should extend all of his tax cuts, make all of them permanent.” (Beatty Warren)
“There's been this argument, somehow, that we can pay for (Hurricane) Katrina entirely by (spending) cuts, across-the-board cuts," (Beatty Warren)
“We can't accomplish what we need to accomplish by across-the-board cuts, because some of those across-the-board cuts would mean 5 percent cuts in food stamps or 5 percent cuts in Medicaid precisely at a time when the poor are being burdened,” (Beatty Warren)
“I think his legacy can be seen in the African-Americans who have achieved success in corporate board rooms, in starting businesses, I think that my own success as U.S. Senator might not be possible had it not been for the shift in peoples' perceptions about what African-Americans could accomplish in this country,” (Beatty Warren)
“Mr. Bennett should immediately apologize to the nation for making a statement that clearly crossed the line.” (Beatty Warren)
“All of the workers have masks on. Why don't we? ... This doesn't breed a lot of confidence.” (Beatty Warren)
“It's one thing when you're reading about a nuclear site in a book. It's another thing to be able to describe what I've seen, ... You realize as a senator there are so many issues out there tugging on people, you've got to make things vivid for them in order to capture people's attention.” (Beatty Warren)
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