American politics Quotes

Money is power in American politics. It always has been.

— William Greider

Mr. President, we've taken off our "Kick Me" sign.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

I like a President who tells jokes instead of appointing them.

— Bob Hope

Are you attracted by his new ideas or his new poll ratings?

— Pat Buchanan

Everything about American politics makes me proud to be Canadian.

— Neve Campbell

The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics.

— Roscoe Conkling

A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.

— Peter Jennings

I'm not the Carter who'll never tell a lie.

— Billy Carter

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

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

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

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

— Theodore White

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

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

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

— Bryce Dessner

Fear and hatred are the legacy of Ronald Reagan. America's vision of peace and freedom [is being] blasted by the guns of…

— Alan Cranston

“Through a process of transference, leftists blame their victims for being and doing what they themselves are and do. In a sick…

— Dinesh D'Souza

After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator,…

— Dee Dee Myers

I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion…

— Robert Reich

“...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

Deepfakes - seemingly authentic video or audio recordings that can spread like wildfire online - are likely to send American politics into…

— Ben Sasse

Jesse Helms wants me to move to the right, Lowell Weiker wants me to move to the left, and Teddy Kennedy wants…

— Ronald Reagan

The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings ordie.…

— Henry Adams

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

— Ricardo Sanchez

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

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

The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Politically Incorrect was the name of the show Bill Maher hosted in the 1990s. It's also an apt description of the man…

— Fareed Zakaria

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

“James Madison framed the constitutional order so that power would be in the hands of the Senate, which represents “the wealth of…

— Noam Chomsky

“It was part hortatory, part personal testimony, part barstool blowhard, a rambling, disjointed, digressive, what-me-worry approach that combined aspects of cable television…

— Michael Wolff

“It is possible that a slow decline in the power of organized conservatism in America will usher in a new era of…

— George Hawley

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

— Samuel Lubell

“Every time I do an interview people ask similar questions, such as "What is the most significant story that you have revealed?"…

— Glenn Greenwald

“The primary elections are the cornerstones of the plebiscitary presidency. They strip away the veneer of party unity and expose the individuality…

— Stephen Skowronek

“Many of them also became members, like Naipaul and Rushdie, of what the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah calls a ‘comprador intelligentsia’: ‘a…

— Pankaj Mishra

“Writing in the New York Times, David Welch, a former research director for the Republican National Committee, argued that the rise of…

— George Hawley