Jesse Jackson has to get back to "I am somebody" instead of "I am some color." — Ernest Hollings 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
“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
He [Jimmy Carter] says his lust is in his heart. I hope it's a little lower. — Shirley MacLaine 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
“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
“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
“Osama Bin Laden, for all his hatred of American culture, American religion and American politics, was very fond of American dollars.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
When it came to the division of power, we did not get from the Jews the slice of cake we deserved... the… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
...it is the Far Right today that establishes the terms of the nuclear debate. And in this context, in a room ringing… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
American politics as you know . . . is very often a matter of capture the flag. The party that loses the… — George F Will Copy Share Image
In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing;… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is… — Susan Estrich Copy Share Image
Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Anybody who suggests that I run for governor is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
When certain causes become prairie fires, politicians make difficult choices, and often at the expense of someone like Jeremiah Wright and Walter… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Net result [of the Dept. of Agriculture's Payment in Kind - PIK - program]: total farm income, now expected to be around… — Daniel Seligman Copy Share Image
A typical vice of American politics the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“King had marched six weeks earlier through the Mississippi town where the civil rights workers Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner were murdered. He… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
In his study of Atlanta over the last 60 years, Kevin Kruse convincingly describes the critical connections between race, Sun Belt suburbanization,… — Dan Carter Copy Share Image
“One of the most important but least recognized facts in American politics is that Republicans tend to win in places where more… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“It’s not like they didn’t know who he was. The year before, in 2015, Politico magazine ranked Dave number two in its… — Corey R. Lewandowski Copy Share Image
“The CIA is behind it all. That’s the conclusion of Mae Brussell—one of America’s foremost assassination experts—a researcher who has collected every… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
Constraint theory argues a number of things. First, that the impossible has to be identified. Second, that the actor is then constrained… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“When California goes bankrupt, the Golden State's woes will be nationalized and shared with the nation at large: the feckless must have… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“Had the European traveller chanced upon Philip Dru, Administrator, a novel published anonymously the previous year about an America of the near… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“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 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
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
“A people without memory cannot resist tyranny, and a nation without heroes cannot produce them.” — Brutus Copy Share Image
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has taken American politics by storm. — Sean Hannity 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
Reagan is both too fatalistic and too modest to be a crudaser. He doesn't have that darkness around the eyes of a… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
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