Thirty years Quote by Jane Mayer

“the “secession” of the rich in which they “disconnect themselves from the civic life of the nation and from any concern about its well-being…

— Jane Mayer

“The press is dying to paint me as now trying to undo the New Deal. I remind them I voted for F.D.R. 4 times.…

— Ronald Reagan

“Politics is not just about power and money games, politics can be about the improvement of people's lives, about lessening human suffering in our…

— Al Franken

George [Mitchell] introduced the idea that we'd go on a retreat [and] to really regularize caucuses. He's the one who had I think [Tom]…

— Barbara Mikulski

“Lyndon Johnson. The junior congressman saw two things that no one else saw. The first was a possible connection between two groups that had…

— Robert A. Caro

“Just as he was an Elk, a Booster, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce, just as the priests of the Presbyterian Church…

— Sinclair Lewis

“Politics is a game played by the rich with the lives of the poor.”

— J.Adam Snyder

Mark Kirk: Lied about going to war. Opposed middle class tax cuts. And said unemployment's not that big an issue.

— Alexi Giannoulias

“To make matters worse, I was out of a job and had very little money and was self-exiled to Flatbush—like others of my countrymen,…

— William Styron

The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political lifeThe junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges,…

— J William Fulbright

“Would he read the paper and see that the Union he saved was now a dysfunctional plutocracy,”

— Paul Beatty

“And then, when it was pointed out that the only way to pay for the idea would be for the government to take 10…

— Dani Kollin