The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative…

The truth is I was Labor's last immigration minister and you have a right to hear directly from me about what that job involved,…

— Tony Burke

One of the reasons people feel so alienated from the American political process is in the fights we get in here in Washington, no…

— Marco Rubio

“Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

— Eldridge Cleaver

Unfortunately, given the rules of the American political game, people who try to participate by self-righteously refusing to identify with one or the other…

— Rick Perlstein

The displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives is -…

— Larry Laudan

Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.

— Noam Chomsky

The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.

— Michael Mandelbaum

In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election

— P. J. O'Rourke

Clinton was super attuned to other people to the point where he talks about feeling other people's pain. Clinton is probably the most buoyant,…

— Daniel H. Pink

“by the fact of his own election, that audacity does not appear to challenge the system of power which has brought the nation an…

— Sheldon S. Wolin

The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.

— John Silber

We're at the end of an era of failed leadership. We have been led by a divider [Barack Obama] who has sliced and diced…

— Rick Perry

The American political system is based on the president taking the initiative and Congress responding. With President Trump, it's been the opposite.

— H. W. Brands

It is such a disappointment in American political reaction and actions. When some of our politicians are flying around the country in private airplanes…

— Arnold Palmer