American Politics Quotes - Page 3

• The time has come to knock off this religion business in American politics. There's no end to the mischief that can occur. It is like putting nitroglycerine in a Waring blender.

  Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.

  Atheism, Ends, Blenders

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

  Barry Goldwater

  White, House, Style

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• The polls show that 10 percent of the public are ready to vote for me even though they don't know I'm running. We hope that figure won't drop when they learn I'm in the race.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Running, Race, Vote

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• A typical vice of American politics the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel phrases each of which sucks the meat out of the preceding statement.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Issues, Vices

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Taken, Worst Case Scenario, Long

  "Romney's unlikely role model" by Dee Dee Myers, www.politico.com. October 24, 2011.

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• A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?

  Jon Meacham

  Wise, Real, Political

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• Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Self, People, Inspire

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• I will say that I think Israel enjoys strong bipartisan support in the United States. It's really above and beyond American politics.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Strong, Thinking, Israel

  Interview with David Muir, abcnews.go.com. September 23, 2011.

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• A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.

  Peter Jennings

  Couple, Long, Week

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• The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

  Eric Alterman

  Economic Inequality, Political, Politician

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• Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.

  Grover Norquist

  Government, Issues, Groups

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• You know, I'm just not going to get into American politics.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Knows

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• Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, People, Office

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.34, 谷月社

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• If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

  Edna Ferber

  Dirty, Literature, Nasty

  Edna Ferber (1930). “Cimarron”, Doubleday

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• After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Blue, White, House

  Dee Dee Myers (2009). “Why Women Should Rule the World”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Simple, People, Black

  "Samuel L. Jackson Says, 'I Voted For Barack Obama Because He Was Black!'". www.ebony.com. February 13, 2012.

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• The Democratic party today is not so much a political party as a milling herd, and the herd is easily stampeded.

  Emmett Tyrrell

  Party, Political, Today

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• Right now, if there's a gender gap problem, it's not Ronald Reagan with women; it's with Walter Mondale with men.

  Patrick Caddell

  Men, Gender Gap, Gaps

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• The good news is that the president gets another chance. The bad news is that he'll be two weeks older.

  Johnny Carson

  Two, President, Another Chance

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• [Deficits are] a yawner. We, as Republicans, have talked about deficits and balanced budgets since the days of Roosevelt, and the people simply haven't listened, because they can't relate to those huge numbers.

  Paul Laxalt

  Numbers, People, Republican

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• When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Ostriches, San Francisco, World

  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (2018). “Legitimacy and Force: State Papers and Current Perspectives: Volume 1: Political and Moral Dimensions”, p.594, Routledge

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• It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Malaise, Carter, Walter Mondale

  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1988). “National and international dimensions”, p.419, Transaction Publishers

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• We are creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud wrestling and The Gong Show seem to have claimed the national campaign.

  Hugh Sidey

  Wrestling, Creating, Presidential

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• Here's the point - and Jonah Goldberg reminds us of this. He wrote a blog post that was titled "The MacGuffinization of American Politics." Do you know what a MacGuffin is? "'In a movie or book, 'The MacGuffin' is the thing the hero wants,' Ace writes." So in the Maltese Falcon, for example, the hero wants the Maltese Falcon, but there's always somebody trying to stop the hero from getting what he wants.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Book, Hero, Writing

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There was never a promise that race relations in America would be entirely resolved during my presidency or anybody's presidency. I mean, this has been a running thread - and - and fault line in American life and American politics since its founding.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Mean, Race

  Interview with Jon Sopel on BBC, www.bbc.com. July 24, 2015.

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