The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American…

For even the most seasoned observers of American politics, Barack Obama is a phenomenon.

— David Lammy

Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.

— Michael Ignatieff

I grew up in a highly political home. My mother was the co-chair of the 300 Group, an organisation whose aim was to get…

— Noreena Hertz

The 2020 presidential election was arguably the most secure - and among the most scrutinized - in American history.

— Jamelle Bouie

I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother…

— Siri Hustvedt

Like many a Yank before me, I have tried to explain to European friends that Americans actually know soccer quite well, that many of…

— Serge Schmemann

Part of the fantasy certain pro-reform Republicans like to broadcast about Hispanics, family-oriented, churchgoing traditionalists, is that they are somehow natural conservatives, just waiting…

— Rick Perlstein

I was trained to serve the writer and director as an actor before I serve myself. Not to say that's gotten in my way,…

— Robert Englund

Some prescient American collectors, including Vicki and Kent Logan and Mera and Donald Rubell, began collecting Chinese art before 2000 with a genuine passion,…

— Arne Glimcher

We are creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud wrestling and…

— Hugh Sidey

Would anyone else like to say anything nice about women?

— Ted Koppel

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.

— Pat Paulsen

Hart is still like that little tub of vaguely milklike gunk that comes with airline coffee. It is labeled a "nondairy" product. Fine: we…

— George Will

Here's the point - and Jonah Goldberg reminds us of this. He wrote a blog post that was titled "The MacGuffinization of American Politics."…

— Rush Limbaugh

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has taken American politics by storm.

— Sean Hannity