Top 352 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Commentators - Page 3

Conservatives won't want to hear this, but the Republican who maneuvered his way into the most impressive victory of the election was California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Okay, he's sui generis. But he won a landslide victory after moving to the center, while holding onto conservatives by not hiking taxes.

I project that this next election - the 2016 election - if it is about anything thematically, it is going to be about that sense of rage and displacement among white working-class voters.

Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy.

We're not going to be living in a world of abundant coal power in a hundred years.

I didn't start talk radio until '95 in L.A. The show was very successful, and they actually tried to syndicate it nationally, but I couldn't get stations. It was like, "We don't care that she's funny and she's got great ratings. She's liberal!"

In America, we are living in a country where the deep economic problems have not been solved and arguably, in many cases, haven't been addressed.

Donald Trump is accomplishing getting, particularly white, working-class voters, who are turned off by their own party.

Once again it was Gough who stood firm for Scotland in the air

It's absolutely true that people who believed Hillary Clinton would be a decent or even strong nominee need to think why that got that wrong. Laying the entire blame at the feet of Russia and the FBI is not sufficient. The biggest reason things went wrong were her own choices and her own weaknesses.

Actually, not because of anyone's intention but just because of some sociological and some other things that have happened over 25, 30 years, the parties have sorted themselves out much more ideologically, which has some benefits and some costs.

Most often the electorate votes for change.

They've maintained their unbeaten record between the legs.

I think the whole dynamic is different. Whereas in [Barack] Obama's case, even though there was no incumbent, he was able to run against eight years of Bush-Cheney and a Republican Congress, and everyone was tired of everything. He was able to benefit from that.

When Republicans are down, in disarray, feeling blue, they turn to a tried-and-true elixir, sort of a Doctor Feelgood medicine for them. It's called tax cuts.

John Moncur has been much more effective since he came on

Now, what tends to happen is that the stories get hyped. And the medicines are not quite as revolutionary and as dramatic as they seem to be. But, certainly, various phases of this problem are being attacked by the pharmaceutical companies.

I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life.

My politics just kind of developed over time as a reaction.

Villa will probably play a lot worse than this and lose.

And Watford acknowledge the support of the crowd, indeed of the crowd that supported them

But perhaps the next step isn't to, once again, expand the otherwise narrow definition of marriage but to altogether abolish the false distinction between married families and other equally valid but unrecognized partnerships.

I'm sure coach Frank Rijkaard will want the Dutch to go on and score a fourth now - although obviously they'll have to score the third one first.

He's marked his entrance with an error of some momentum

Not every article in every magazine or newspaper is meant to be a valentine card addressed to every reader's self-esteem.

In case you didn't know, ethanol is made by mixing corn with your tax dollars.

In some ways, Trump is just going to continue the trend: by continuing the norm-smashing behaviour that Republicans used in opposition.

Maybe one thing that has happened is that the claims of non-partisanship of the mainstream media have been a little bit exploded. Mostly I'd say what, if anything has caused the change, are just the obvious technological changes - proliferation of easier access to getting your opinions out and the proliferation of media.

Lampard, as usual, arrived in the nick of time, but it wasn't quite soon enough.

Overreaction is one of the things that congress specializes in. I can't think of anything congress does better than overreact.

And on this issue of the Shia in Iraq, I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of pop sociology in America that, you know, somehow the Shia can't get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq's always been very secular.

He hit that one like an arrow

Here's Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn't look much taller than that

There has been a fair amount of criticism of the DNC for letting this squabble between [Bernie] Sanders and [Hillary] Clinton campaigns spill out into the open.

Cleland was the victim of his own downfall.

Peter Weir has just shrugged off an ankle injury

The coverage of Central America in recent months points up one of the ugly truths about the American press: the better the news, the less of it you get. As the war began to turn against the Communist guerillas in El Salvador, there was a palpable dip in the attention paid to it.

I think that no one roiled American politics and sort of scrambled the left/right dynamic more 2015 year than Pope Francis.

The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not to notice. It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.

Typically in politics it is easier for the left to mobilize against a Republican president than it is to mobilize against a Democratic president, even in the cases when the Republican president or Democratic president are pushing the same exact thing.

Never miss it - that's the second biggest compliment I'd give to RealClearPolitics.com. The first is that it has become indispensable to anyone, in or outside of journalism, who's interested in politics, policy, or world affairs.

Halifax against Spurs, the original David against Goliath confrontation

A piece of art - this goes for a painting or a sculpture or a book or whatever - really shouldn't have to do with the set of expectations that the viewer or the audience or the reader brings to that work. It should just have to do with how they interpret it and whether they like it or not.

That this is not a sense of innovation and competition increasing prices because some other company is coming in and competing with Martin Shkreli. This is literally a monopoly.

That's referee Mike Reed's 50th booking of the season, which works out at an average of six a game.

I think it`s going to be an important policy, the opening of Cuba and I think political policy for the hemisphere.

Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history.

He's like a demented ferret up a wee drainpipe.

They care about their club, and that's why they always have something good to say, even when it is negative

He'll probably wake up having sleepless nights about that one.

And now with Argentina out, they will be on the plane home with France

The shot from Laws was precise but wide.

Donald Trump was, you know, obviously a very important businessman, billionaire, he was a reality show star and I think that he has had more success running for president than probably even he imagined.

He had an eternity to play that ball... but he took too long over it.

That's an important Obama accomplishment: he raised taxes back to Bill Clinton levels, and made a major dent in inequality doing so. That's certain to be reversed, that's going to disappear. The Republicans are going to slash the rich's taxes.

Donald Trump is actually doing what Bernie Sanders was billed as doing. He's doing new voters into the process.

Xavier, who looks just like Zeus, not that I have any idea what Zeus looks like.

We want the right people, the ones who love to play football. I want a guy who, if I punch him in the mouth, doesn't stand there and say, ?Why did you punch me?' I want the guy who punches me back first, and then asks me why I did it.

Having lived in Florida for as long as you did as well, Jeb Bush has never really been that great of a politician. He's benefited from a lot of good luck.He torched his own campaign in '94, he had a weak Democratic opponent in '98, he benefited from the Clinton boom and got out before the Bush bust.

He's passing the ball like Idi Amin.

Rush Limbaugh, whether you hate him or not, he's a great entertainer; he's a great broadcaster.