John ain't been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Asking Senator Fulbright's advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck. — Spiro T. Agnew 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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I always say, when they ask me about American politics, is for you guys to decide who you elect. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I do think British and American politics rhyme. They go in cycles. They go in Thatcher-Reagan cycles, Blair-Clinton cycles. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
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Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable. — Ana Navarro Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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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
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We're resolved tonight that young Americans will always see those Potomac lights, that they will always find here a city of hope… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness… — Lee Atwater Copy Share Image
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Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
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Today, the District of Columbia has more residents than at least two other states; Puerto Rico has more than 20. With numbers… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
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