American politics Quotes · Page 5

It's easy to be cynical about American politics. It's more important not to be.

— Andy Dunn

It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

— Robert Byrd

Tomorrow, I'm going to a soup kitchen in Mobile. I think that will symbolize the insensitivity of this administration to human needs.

— Walter F. Mondale

You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.

— William J. Clinton

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.

— Pat Paulsen

People always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.

— Tony Blair

Jimmy used to drink liquor. Now he's running for president and he drinks Scotch, and I've never trusted a Scotch-drinker.

— Billy Carter

Well, it is alarming to have a president [Reagan] who doesn't know what he is doing.

— McGeorge Bundy

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 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

This would seem to be a truism in contemporary American politics: The electorate opts for serious leaders, but almost always men who…

— Alex Wagner

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

— Anonymous

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

— johnjwillard

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

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

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

The black man in North America was sickest of all politically. He let the white man divide him into such foolishness as…

— Malcolm X

The most momentous fact about the pattern of American politics is that we live under a persistent, obdurate, one might almost say…

— Clinton Rossiter

“Since 1877 the driving force of American politics hasn’t primarily been a class struggle or tension between agrarian and commercial interests, or…

— Colin Woodard

There's a stupid trend in American politics right now with people who have no experience with politics and no grasp of public…

— Steve Albini

But I also want to change the dynamics of this debate, which has kept us gridlocked into positions which caused people to…

— John McCain

For all the talk about the bitterness and the partisanship in American politics, is it really that bitter and partisan? Think of…

— William Kristol

Senator John McCain is unlike anybody else in not - not just in the Senate but in American politics. He's unlike anybody…

— Rachel Maddow

I volunteered 35 years ago to go to Vietnam and the guy I was running against got out of going to Vietnam…

— Max Cleland

When it comes to giving tax breaks to the wealthy of this country, the President has a heart of gold.

— Tip O'Neill

We should vigorously debate policy differences. We have too much all-or-nothing in American politics.

— Benjamin E. Sasse

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

— Edna Ferber

“I am a Conservative: Barack Obama is the Hans Gruber of American politics. #caring”

— Kurt Schlichter

RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.

— Ambrose Bierce

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— johnjwillard

Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.

— Oliver Stone

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party.

— Grover Norquist

I will not rest until I have transformed the landscape of American politics.

— Newt Gingrich

It could well be the end of justice in America. Do not let Mr. Reagan get his hands on that court.

— Walter F. Mondale

The President needs me at the White House. It's autumn, you know, and the leaves need raking.

— Spiro T. Agnew

The Democratic party is really just a giant day care center for squabbling little groups.

— Pat Buchanan

I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority.

— Tony Blankley

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

— Hunter S. Thompson

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

DELEGATION, n. In American politics, an article of merchandise that comes in sets.

— Ambrose Bierce