American Politics Quotes - Page 10

• American politics are important because it affects the entire world in often negative ways.

  Bryce Dessner

  Important, Negative, World

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• I have fought the establishment, run primaries, my entire career. I think that for Planned Parenthood or NARAL or the Human Rights Campaign to be considered the establishment, somebody's not paying close attention to how American politics works.

  Claire McCaskill

  Running, Thinking, Rights

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• What I really hope for, ultimately, is that the closet will be a non-factor in American politics in a couple of decades.

  Kirby Dick

  Couple, Closets, Decades

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has taken American politics by storm.

  Sean Hannity

  Taken, Presidential, Storm

  "Christie explains changed stance on gun laws; Trump Jr. talks father's candidacy; Fiorina scolds Clinton". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. January 06, 2016.

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• Constraint theory argues a number of things. First, that the impossible has to be identified. Second, that the actor is then constrained by circumstances to act a certain way. For example, should we invade ISIS? Can we invade ISIS? What would it take to invade ISIS? Once you ask that question you discover the price of that option and then you take a look at American politics and see that the country is probably not prepared to invest the 2 to 3 million people that it would take to defeat ISIS and the insurgency afterwards. All right, so that's not going to happen.

  George Friedman

  Country, Numbers, Isis

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Our relationship with Israel is another reason we're being attacked. But an American politician - whether Muslim or not - who criticizes Israel as a martyrdom operation in American politics cannot survive as an official or as a politician.

  Michael Scheuer

  Israel, Politician, Reason

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Sarah Palin is a great example of someone that just stirs the pot for the sake of the attention. No vision, no critical thinking, no backup to her statements. Just to incite little riots everywhere and capitalize upon it financially. To me, she is a microcosm of the ultimate cynicism in American politics.

  Rosanne Cash

  Thinking, Vision, Littles

  Interview with Antonino D’Ambrosio, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 21, 2010.

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• When certain causes become prairie fires, politicians make difficult choices, and often at the expense of someone like Jeremiah Wright and Walter Jenkins. That's the cruel nature of American politics, where the end becomes the consummate objective, and sometimes the means to get there come at a great price.

  Bill Moyers

  Mean, Fire, Difficult Choices

  "Bill Moyers on His Legendary Journalism Career: 'Democracy Should Be a Brake on Unbridled Greed and Power'". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. June 8, 2011.

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• [Ronald] Reagan had an agenda, three agenda items. George W. Bush had some. But [Donald] Trump, because people weren't listening, Trump has the longest agenda item list I have seen in modern American politics.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Listening, Three

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It is familiar to mainstream academic scholarship. One very prominent political scientist, in his standard text American Politics 20 years ago, observes that "The architects of power in the United States must create a force that can be felt but not seen."

  Noam Chomsky

  Years, Political, United States

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• For all the talk about the bitterness and the partisanship in American politics, is it really that bitter and partisan? Think of American history. Think of Joseph McCarthy. Think of the New Left. Think of [George] McGovern. Think of [Ronald] Reagan. Think of George Wallace. We've had an awful lot of real extremism on both wings.

  William Kristol

  Real, Thinking, Wings

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• McGovern couldn't carry the South if Rhett Butler were his running mate.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Running, Butlers, Mates

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• Mr. Fulbright hasn't said anything new or interesting or clever in five years; his intellectual well dried up the day after Walter Lippmann stopped writing his regular column.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Clever, Writing, Years

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

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• Asking Senator Fulbright's advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Boston, Advice, Asking

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

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• It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Complaining, Nerves, Disease

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

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• We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that we both speak with an accent.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Wife, Three, Verbs

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• The President is aware of what is going on. That is not to say that something is going on.

  Ron Ziegler

  President

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• Mr. Chairman, I think the record should show that for the first time since McKinley, we have a Republican president worth shooting, and I think that's a good sign.

  James Johnson

  Thinking, President, Mckinley

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• I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.

  Barry Goldwater

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

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• I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.

  Barry Goldwater

  Government, Moscow, Centralized Government

  Barry Morris Goldwater (1964). “Goldwater from A to Z: a critical handbook”

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• The meeting [in San Antonio of the National Women's Political Caucus] featured a cattle show at which a herd of Democratic candidates- Glenn, Cranston, Mondale, Hart, and Hollings- pantingly pantomined their fidelity to feminism, stopping just short of a pledge to use nuclear weapons against any states that omit to ratify the Equal Right Amendment.

  Daniel Seligman

  Political, Feminism, Use

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• Would anyone else like to say anything nice about women?

  Ted Koppel

  Nice, Say Anything

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• My good friend Walter Mondale is a good lapdog. He'll give them [special interest groups] everything they want. He'll lick every hand.

  Ernest Hollings

  Good Friend, Hands, Giving

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• [Mondale] was not born; he was appointed.

  Ernest Hollings

  Born

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• Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.

  George McGovern

  Christian, Odds, Heritage

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