American politics Quotes

[Mondale] was not born; he was appointed.

— Ernest Hollings

Would anyone else like to say anything nice about women?

— Ted Koppel

You know, I'm just not going to get into American politics.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

I think I made his back feel better.

— Marilyn Monroe

The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics.

— Roscoe Conkling

Everything about American politics makes me proud to be Canadian.

— Neve Campbell

Are you attracted by his new ideas or his new poll ratings?

— Pat Buchanan

I like a President who tells jokes instead of appointing them.

— Bob Hope

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

— Edna Ferber

Jimmy used to drink liquor. Now he's running for president and he drinks Scotch, and I've never trusted a Scotch-drinker.

— Billy Carter

When it comes to giving tax breaks to the wealthy of this country, the President has a heart of gold.

— Tip O'Neill

Well, it is alarming to have a president [Reagan] who doesn't know what he is doing.

— McGeorge Bundy

People always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.

— Tony Blair

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

— Pat Paulsen

Tomorrow, I'm going to a soup kitchen in Mobile. I think that will symbolize the insensitivity of this administration to human needs.

— Walter F. Mondale

It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

— Robert Byrd

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the…

— Michael Pollan

Reagan "has conducted an arms race on earth," boomed Mondale. A race generally implies two parties. The Soviets contributed a little bit…

— Hugh Sidey

A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters.…

— Jon Meacham

The classic rules of American politics are dying, if not dead, if you look at the last two presidential elections. An African-American…

— Eric Garcetti

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

— George Will

Americans are about to discover that their system is more vulnerable than they thought. There's a lot of complacency in American politics,…

— David Frum

“In order to avoid undesirable criticism, how the organization is controlled and directed should not be widely advertised,” Charles wrote, arguing for…

— Jane Mayer

First of all, let me just say what's interesting about American politics is that if things really get bad here, people say…

— Marco Rubio

“American thought and American politics will be largely at the mercy of those who operate these stations, for publicity is the most…

— Anonymous

“The nation’s leaders keep throwing out the word “Washington” as a vulgar abstraction. Nothing new here: the anti-Washington reflex in American politics…

— Mark Leibovich

Net result [of the Dept. of Agriculture's Payment in Kind - PIK - program]: total farm income, now expected to be around…

— Daniel Seligman

When certain causes become prairie fires, politicians make difficult choices, and often at the expense of someone like Jeremiah Wright and Walter…

— Bill Moyers

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as…

— James McGreevey

“The Kochs were not alone. As they sought ways to steer American politics hard to the right without having to win the…

— Jane Mayer

Today, the District of Columbia has more residents than at least two other states; Puerto Rico has more than 20. With numbers…

— Heather Cox Richardson

The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile,…

— Anonymous

“Welch became more confident that the press was reporting his words more accurately, but that worked against him because his discourses on…

— Edward H. Miller

“What we have here is a war—the war of matter and spirit. In the classical era, spirit was in harmony with matter.…

— Giannina Braschi

“The primary elections are the cornerstones of the plebiscitary presidency. They strip away the veneer of party unity and expose the individuality…

— Stephen Skowronek

“Every time I do an interview people ask similar questions, such as "What is the most significant story that you have revealed?"…

— Glenn Greenwald

“Our political solar system, in short, has been characterized not by two equally competing suns, but by a sun and a moon.…

— Samuel Lubell

“Writing in the New York Times, David Welch, a former research director for the Republican National Committee, argued that the rise of…

— George Hawley

“It was part hortatory, part personal testimony, part barstool blowhard, a rambling, disjointed, digressive, what-me-worry approach that combined aspects of cable television…

— Michael Wolff

“It may be inferred again that the present movement for women’s rights will certainly prevail from the history of its only opponent,…

— Robert Lewis Dabney