Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
American politics are important because it affects the entire world in often negative ways. — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
The first iron rule of American politics is Follow the Money. This explains, oh, about 80 percent of what goes on in Washington. — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
I am tired of the dumbing-down of American politics and the trend of voting without thinking. — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
If somebody had made that [deal] to me when I was a businessman, I would have said he proposed to give me… — George P. Shultz Copy Share Image
One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
On domestic policy, one of the major stories in American politics has been the growing ideological and political self-confidence of the Democratic… — Peter Beinart Copy Share Image
It seems to me there are good deficits and bad deficits. Now, we have a deficit that comes from the militarization of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The polls show that 10 percent of the public are ready to vote for me even though they don't know I'm running.… — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Conspiracy theories abound in American politics. I don't think we need to be subliminable about the differences between our views on prescription… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
This would seem to be a truism in contemporary American politics: The electorate opts for serious leaders, but almost always men who… — Alex Wagner Copy Share Image
I have fought the establishment, run primaries, my entire career. I think that for Planned Parenthood or NARAL or the Human Rights… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
“bolstered southern power by scrapping the rule that had once counted an African American as only three-fifths of a person for electoral… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
[If the Democratic nominee turns out to be] Walter Mondale, I hope he picks Representative Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. It… — Hendrik Hertzberg Copy Share Image
The central question for American politics right now is how did the country that elected Barack Obama elect Donald Trump. There's a… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you,… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
I couldn't help but be struck that this guy I had thought was the embodiment of everything wrong with American politics, a… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
It was Reagan who began the realignment of American politics, making the Republicans into internationalist Jeffersonians with his speech in London at… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
I do believe that the Barack Obama administration has reached a new low by using the instruments of the state against its… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal. — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has taken American politics by storm. — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
“A people without memory cannot resist tyranny, and a nation without heroes cannot produce them.” — Brutus Copy Share Image
Right now, if there's a gender gap problem, it's not Ronald Reagan with women; it's with Walter Mondale with men. — Patrick Caddell Copy Share Image
The President is aware of what is going on. That is not to say that something is going on. — Ron Ziegler Copy Share Image
In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik. — Howard Baker Copy Share Image
“This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.” — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“But honesty was a dull blade to take into a knife fight with Richard Nixon — who was simply willing to lie.” — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
He [Jimmy Carter] says his lust is in his heart. I hope it's a little lower. — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
You know you have a problem in American politics when they're making 'House of Cards' look normal. — Michael Kelly Copy Share Image
Jesse Jackson has to get back to "I am somebody" instead of "I am some color." — Ernest Hollings Copy Share Image
The Democratic party today is not so much a political party as a milling herd, and the herd is easily stampeded. — Emmett Tyrrell Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in American politics there are no standards for shame. — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
McGovern couldn't carry the South if Rhett Butler were his running mate. — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
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