American politics Quotes · Page 5

Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.

— Michael Ignatieff

American politics are important because it affects the entire world in often negative ways.

— Bryce Dessner

It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

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

— Jackie Fuchs

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but…

— Theodore White

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

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

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

— Jon Meacham

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

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

It seems to me there are good deficits and bad deficits. Now, we have a deficit that comes from the militarization of…

— Anonymous

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

“American Mirror "What is now occurring with the absolute judgemental assault of one another. America is finally waking up to the reality…

— johnjwillard

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

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

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

It was Reagan who began the realignment of American politics, making the Republicans into internationalist Jeffersonians with his speech in London at…

— Michael Ignatieff

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

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

In the early 1970s in Washington, a small group of young conservative activists came together to try and change American politics. They…

— Adam Curtis

“Rome became a republic in 509 B.C., after driving out its king and abolishing the monarchy. The next two centuries saw a…

— Anthony Everitt

Sarah Palin is a great example of someone that just stirs the pot for the sake of the attention. No vision, no…

— Rosanne Cash

I'm still trying to figure out exactly what President Trump represents in American politics. But, if nothing else, he represents a way…

— Al Gore

I had a new idea on the way to this meeting this morning, but that doesn't mean we should put it in…

— Michael D. Barnes

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

— Jack Abramoff

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has taken American politics by storm.

— Sean Hannity

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

— Brutus

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

The President is aware of what is going on. That is not to say that something is going on.

— Ron Ziegler

In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.

— Howard Baker

“Osama Bin Laden, for all his hatred of American culture, American religion and American politics, was very fond of American dollars.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“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

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

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

— Michael Kelly

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

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

— Ernest Hollings