Carter is doing a high-wire act over a cesspool, preaching all the way. Sinclair Lewis, thou shouldst be living in this hour.… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Change might be the most powerful word in American politics. It’s also one of the hardest to define. In 1992 and 2008,… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
We've had periods of meanness in American politics. Actually, the dawn of partisan division in America was basically in George Washington's second… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Mr. Fulbright hasn't said anything new or interesting or clever in five years; his intellectual well dried up the day after Walter… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If I were a white candidate, I'd have won the Democratic nomination. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be… — John McCain Copy Share Image
When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to… — Lee H. Hamilton Copy Share Image
The black man in North America was sickest of all politically. He let the white man divide him into such foolishness as… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“It is possible that a slow decline in the power of organized conservatism in America will usher in a new era of… — George Hawley Copy Share Image
The most critical problem we face, not only in the barrios, but in Nicaragua and Central America, is that of the threat… — Jackie Jackson Copy Share Image
My good friend Walter Mondale is a good lapdog. He'll give them [special interest groups] everything they want. He'll lick every hand. — Ernest Hollings Copy Share Image
“It’s important to understand that while libertarian philosophy may have been regarded as a fringe movement in American politics, epitomized by Ron… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
If you're looking for the phony in American politics, you could do worse than follow the money. — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“Nixon has been the subject of more psychobiographies than any other politician. His career vindicates one of that maligned genre's most trustworthy… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Of the many ways in which Donald J. Trump is disrupting American politics, one of the most compelling is his disregard for… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Jesse Helms wants me to move to the right, Lowell Weiker wants me to move to the left, and Teddy Kennedy wants… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Osama Bin Laden, for all his hatred of American culture, American religion and American politics, was very fond of American dollars.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
We don't need more politicians insisting we have deficits because you're not taxed enough. Those deficits ballooned from an economy that didn't… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
[Jerry Brown] is California's way of celebrating the Year of the Child. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Our relationship with Israel is another reason we're being attacked. But an American politician - whether Muslim or not - who criticizes… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can… — George Will Copy Share Image