American politics Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

— Theodore Roosevelt

A feat - of access and of passionate and appropriately unsettling political commentary.

— Lisa Schwarzbaum

“Without critical work, political awareness is likely to remain superficial and rhetorical.”

— Carter Heyward

“All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”

— George Orwell

The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.

— John Silber

“In my judgment, we suffer quite as much from exaggerated, hysterical, and untruthful or slanderous statements in the press as from any wrongdoing by…

— Peter Hartshorn

Now Speaker Gingrich says interesting and insightful things. He can explain them well. On many occasions he also says outrageous things that come from…

— Jim Talent

Nothing disturbs me more than superficiality and mere sloganizing on matters of public policy, and the suspicion that what the speaker is saying represents…

— Preston Manning

Being under the political spotlight is far different than anything I'd experienced before. Every word is a critical word. Sometimes you really aren't allowed…

— Linda McMahon

“Many people who have an interest in politics feel they should proclaim—loudly, and at any given time—what their views are and why the “other…

— Victoria Stoklasa

Our job is not to amuse our readers. Our mission is to stir them, inform and inflame them. Our task is to continually hold…

— Tony Auth

“...Today the invisible hand seems confused and indecisive...Ideology and rhetoric increasingly guide policy decision, often bearing little relationship to factual reality. And the America…

— Shawn Lawrence Otto