American politics Quote by Charles L. Mee Jr

“it is not impossible that I could become Governor of this state. Or even President. I would not mind having a horde of sycophants…

— L.A. Meyer

[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was "a city upon a hill," which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There are incidents…

— Kevin Sessums

“This Midwest. A dissonance of parts and people, we are a consonance of Towns. Like a man grown fat in everything but heart, we…

— William H. Gass

“Washington's all abstraction. It's about access to power and nothing else. I mean, I'm sure it's fun if you're living next door to Seinfeld,…

— Jonathan Franzen

“And so it happened, that when others bent their knee, he refused and added loudly that his ancestors in their time bowed no knee…

— Isaac Asimov

“Brigands masquerading as statesmen.”

— Renee Patrick

“I was born and grew to manhood in one of the wildest and roughest districts of Pennsylvania.”

— E. H. (Elmer Harry) Kreps

“Tangier is a one-horse town that happens to have its own government.”

— Paul Bowles

“We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.”

— Kenzaburō Ōe

“Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer, (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terribly bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch. President?”

— Douglas Adams

“the Democrat. What was worse, for her, at least, was that the mayor was a supporter of”

— Michael Connelly

“Thomas Hobbes's politics are fitted only to promote tyranny, and his ethics to encourage licentiousness.”

— David Hume