Accents Quote by Donald Rumsfeld

If a person with a rural accent says 'I don't know much about politics,' zip your pocket.

— Donald Rumsfeld

“The only useful generalization I’d hazard about rural politics is that they tend to break on the line of “insider” vs. “outsider.” When my…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Hillary Clinton was in rural America during the Iowa caucuses, but I think the nature of a campaign makes it more difficult once you…

— Tom Vilsack

My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my…

— Brion James

Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.

— David Brooks

There's no question that [Donald] Trump got elected because of rural America. And our party still is in denial. They don't get it.

— Collin Peterson

“Look, you're small-town. I've had over 50 jobs, maybe a hundred. I've never stayed anywhere long. What I am trying to say is, there…

— Charles Bukowski

Local politics matters a lot.

— Van Jones

That's one thing you Americans take for granted, you know? That you can grow up, you know, not so good circumstances, and you can…

— Ory Okolloh

“I want to forewarn you,” Bryon says seriously. “It’s very possible that I may start talking with a southern accent.” “That’s all right as…

— Dark Calling

I think people tend to underestimate you when you have a Northern accent, for instance if you have to talk to the CEO of…

— Steph McGovern

Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you.

— Henry F. Ashurst