Dad Quote by Octavia Butler

My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they…

— Gore Vidal

It was very important to my father-in-law that we didn't feel like we deserted our base of voters.

— Lara Trump

“Which was why he hadn’t voted since the early ‘90s. Why anyone who placed faith in their elected representatives to “save the country” was…

— Stephen England

Was he a doper or was he just a loser?

— Neil Young

I vote for whoever will annoy my dad.

— Jack Whitehall

So many use dad's name, saying 'Johnny Cash would not like this' or 'Johnny Cash would do this' or 'Johnny Cash would vote for...…

— John Carter Cash

Ever since my dad found out what it was like to have your right to vote taken away from you, he'd never voluntarily give…

— Karine Jean-Pierre

In fact, when I fought the 1996 election, being Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's daughter, it has its own plus and minus, so I told my…

— Mehbooba Mufti

The truth is, he almost wasn't a senator at all. In 1972, shortly after his improbable victory, but before he took the oath of…

— Beau Biden

I've known Don since he came to Washington. When he first came to work for George W. Bush, he was a different Don Rumsfeld.…

— Art Buchwald

My father did not groom us for politics. I took the plunge because I wanted to carry on his work in his constituency.

— Naveen Patnaik

My father was not a political animal.

— Mickey Kaus