American politics Quotes · Page 6

Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.

— Jesse Jackson

I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.

— Phil Gramm

There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Gary Hart is going to be all over the political spectrum fuzzing it up just like Jack Kennedy.

— Robert Novak

Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.

— Garry Trudeau

I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.

— Byron Dorgan

There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke.

— Ronald Reagan

“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

I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like…

— Samuel L. Jackson

The Hispanic population grew by 4.7 percent last year, while blacks expanded by 1.5 percent and whites by a paltry 0.3 percent.…

— Dick Morris

There are cycles in American politics. US cycles are even more pronounced because we Americans have a totally entrepreneurial presidential system. We…

— Charles Krauthammer

“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

A typical vice of American politics the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“King had marched six weeks earlier through the Mississippi town where the civil rights workers Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner were murdered. He…

— Rick Perlstein

In his study of Atlanta over the last 60 years, Kevin Kruse convincingly describes the critical connections between race, Sun Belt suburbanization,…

— Dan Carter

“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

“American politics had two fatal flaws - flaws that led to its downfall.  The first was corruption.  Politicians lied with almost every…

— Richard Stephenson

If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me…

— Ronald Reagan

Revenues should be increased not by increasing the tax rates on the individual but by building a bigger economy for everybody.

— Ronald Reagan

Democrats should have learned in 2016 that what counts in American politics is location, not turnout.

— Bret Stephens

If you're looking for the phony in American politics, you could do worse than follow the money.

— Ben Fountain

I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I'd fit in perfectly.

— Barry Goldwater

“It is a truism of American politics that no man who can win an election deserves to.”

— Trevanian

We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease.

— Spiro T. Agnew

“America is ignited with the "process of truth." ...see you on the other side... 2016 USA Presidential Elections”

— johnjwillard

The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.

— Rob Walton

Walter Mondale once said God has no place in American politics and it turned out that God felt the same way about…

— Argus Hamilton

Donald Trump has fundamentally realigned American politics. It's time the media acknowledge this and give him the credit he deserves.

— Stephen Miller

I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.

— Barry Goldwater

American politics, like most things, is a story of what statisticians describe as the reversion to the mean.

— David Ignatius

Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn't know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He's always had an agent…

— Bob Hope

What I really hope for, ultimately, is that the closet will be a non-factor in American politics in a couple of decades.

— Kirby Dick