American politics Quotes · Page 3

If you're in the penaut business you learn to think small.

— Eugene McCarthy

John ain't been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.

— Jesse Jackson

DELEGATION, n. In American politics, an article of merchandise that comes in sets.

— Ambrose Bierce

Reagan is both too fatalistic and too modest to be a crudaser. He doesn't have that darkness around the eyes of a…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

The Democratic party is really just a giant day care center for squabbling little groups.

— Pat Buchanan

I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority.

— Tony Blankley

It could well be the end of justice in America. Do not let Mr. Reagan get his hands on that court.

— Walter F. Mondale

The President needs me at the White House. It's autumn, you know, and the leaves need raking.

— Spiro T. Agnew

I will not rest until I have transformed the landscape of American politics.

— Newt Gingrich

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American…

— Karl Rove

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the…

— George Will

In American politics, there's a recurring fantasy, nurtured by the press, about 'courageous' politicians who do the right thing against their political…

— Ari Melber

One of the most curious things about American politics is that without a single historical exception a partisan is invariably a member…

— Anonymous

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American…

— Karl Rove

'Politico Magazine' listed me among the top 50 'thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics' for my work in coalitions advancing net neutrality.

— Marvin Ammori

We should have at least one new idea in the job training part of the platform. Otherwise, why don't we just take…

— Tim Wirth

There have always been hucksters, cranks and populists who see a brief rise in American politics, going back to William Jennings Bryan…

— Joseph Rago

My assessment is that we have a crisis in national political leadership. When will America recognize the danger we face? When will…

— Ricardo Sanchez

We're very good at talking about the individual in American politics and excellent at talking about the government. But we have little…

— J. D. Vance

My experience of American politics is that people raise issues, and they get addressed in an effective but imperfect way. But that's…

— Tom Steyer

“Issues that agitate American politics—who is an American citizen and what rights come along with citizenship, the relative powers of the national…

— Eric Foner

Barack Obama has brought glamour back to American politics - not the faux glamour-by-association of campaigning with movie stars or sailing with…

— Virginia Postrel

Barack Obama, who might be mercifully closing the Clinton parenthesis in presidential history, is refreshingly cerebral amid this recrudescence of the paranoid…

— George Will

They [Theodore White and Lou Harris] took turns weeping, and finally concluded that Rockefeller got the votes of everyone in California who…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

The Senate wants you to know how terribly, sincerely sorry they are even though not a single member of today's Senate was…

— Mona Charen

“The result of these trends is that today the courts, unrestrained by higher law and disdainful of majority will, are the dominant…

— Charles W. Colson

“Delta Airlines, you might have noticed, does not run negative TV ads about USAir. It does not show pictures of the crash…

— Charles Krauthammer

“In addition to the Kochs, this group included Richard Mellon Scaife, an heir to the Mellon banking and Gulf Oil fortunes; Harry…

— Jane Mayer

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party.

— Grover Norquist

Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.

— Oliver Stone

“America We have reached the critical mass of Epic Weird! 2017 American Politics”

— johnjwillard

He [Jimmy Carter] says his lust is in his heart. I hope it's a little lower.

— Shirley MacLaine

“I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“Public life in this country is too damn dominated by people who’d read more if only their lips didn’t get so tired.”

— Markham Shaw Pyle

“But honesty was a dull blade to take into a knife fight with Richard Nixon — who was simply willing to lie.”

— Rick Perlstein

You know you have a problem in American politics when they're making 'House of Cards' look normal.

— Michael Kelly

Jesse Jackson has to get back to "I am somebody" instead of "I am some color."

— Ernest Hollings

The Democratic party today is not so much a political party as a milling herd, and the herd is easily stampeded.

— Emmett Tyrrell

Asking Senator Fulbright's advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.

— Spiro T. Agnew