American politics Quotes · Page 4

There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke.

— Ronald Reagan

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

There is no doubt that the issue of race is always present in American politics and in the politics of any multiracial…

— Al Gore

If, after the election, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and a Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security,…

— Hamilton Jordan

Gary Hart is going to be all over the political spectrum fuzzing it up just like Jack Kennedy.

— Robert Novak

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

Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the…

— Grover Norquist

CONSUL, n. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure and office from the people is given one by the…

— Ambrose Bierce

“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

Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor…

— Jesse Jackson

“...sometimes offering a quality daily opinion about what’s going on in American politics feels like trying to compose a beautiful symphony using…

— Caitlin Johnstone

And if Sarah Palin whose Web site put and today scrubbed bull's-eyes targets on 20 Representatives, including Gabby Giffords, does not repudiate…

— Keith Olbermann

The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat.

— Ronald Reagan

It is familiar to mainstream academic scholarship. One very prominent political scientist, in his standard text American Politics 20 years ago, observes…

— Noam Chomsky

He [Reagan] likes to tell jokes and that's why he told the ethnic joke that got him into some trouble. Perhaps if…

— Robert Scheer

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

I think I made his back feel better.

— Marilyn Monroe

“What if an American citizen needs to disappear, for reasons that might never be revealed to you, and you are involved, even…

— Nick Drnaso

I am tired of the dumbing-down of American politics and the trend of voting without thinking.

— Jackie Fuchs

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

— Samuel Lubell

Democrats should have learned in 2016 that what counts in American politics is location, not turnout.

— Bret Stephens

Mr. Chairman, I think the record should show that for the first time since McKinley, we have a Republican president worth shooting,…

— James Johnson

What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics.

— Michael Kinsley

“A people without memory cannot resist tyranny, and a nation without heroes cannot produce them.”

— Brutus

It's often said of American politics that it's a huge juggernaut and the president can change the direction by two or three…

— Martin Amis