American Politics Quotes

• My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Country

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

  Robert Byrd

  Money, Ideas, Principles

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• That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Patriotic, Government

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• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Leadership, Bullying

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1933 See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Thoreau 16; Wellington 3

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  No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Leadership, Witty, Men

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• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.

  Pat Paulsen

  Fear, Breast Cancer, Men

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• First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Fear, Patriotic, History

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1933 See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Thoreau 16; Wellington 3

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• Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Memorable, Europe

  Remarks at Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin, Germany, 12 June 1987

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• That government is best which governs least.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Ralph Waldo Emerson 29; O'Sullivan 1; Shipley 1

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• Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Trust, Country, Witty

  "Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War that is Destroying America". Book by Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel, 2007.

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• The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, America, Envy

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• There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

  Charlie Pierce

  Greedy, Reckless, Violent

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• A generation ago [the Democratic Party] stood for progressive change. Now they defend every federal program as if each were sacred. They have become the most conservative force in American politics.

  Thomas Friedman

  Party, Sacred, Generations

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• When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.

  Jesse Jackson

  Unions, Moral, Authority

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• There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke.

  Ronald Reagan

  Sound, Dollars, Description

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• The President needs me at the White House. It's autumn, you know, and the leaves need raking.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Autumn, White, House

  Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word”, Pelican Publishing Company

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• I'm not the Carter who'll never tell a lie.

  Billy Carter

  Lying, Carter

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• Third parties in America gravitate not only to the extremes, but to irrelevance. (John Anderson's upcoming presidential campaign will undoubtedly confirm both tendencies.)

  Charles Krauthammer

  Party, America, Irrelevance

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• I'm convinced Mr. Reagan would never be elected- I don't think his views are held by a majority of the American people...it's the Republican party that's going to be committing suicide by nominating candidates of that genre.

  John Anderson

  Suicide, Party, Thinking

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• In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.

  Howard Baker

  Tennessee, Conservative, Bolsheviks

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• People always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, People, Different

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• I always say, when they ask me about American politics, is for you guys to decide who you elect.

  Tony Blair

  Guy, Ask Me, Asks

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• American politics is always somewhat fluid. In this age of social media, it means that voters can swing back and forth.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Media, Swings

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Military, Worry, Intellectual

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• The most critical problem we face, not only in the barrios, but in Nicaragua and Central America, is that of the threat of an invasion by the United States.

  Jackie Jackson

  America, Nicaragua, United States

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