American Politics Quotes - Page 11

• Reagan is both too fatalistic and too modest to be a crudaser. He doesn't have that darkness around the eyes of a George McGovern.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Eye, Darkness, Modest

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• The Democratic party is really just a giant day care center for squabbling little groups.

  Pat Buchanan

  Party, Day Care, Littles

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• Net result [of the Dept. of Agriculture's Payment in Kind - PIK - program]: total farm income, now expected to be around $25 billion, this fiscal year, will exceed total federal subsidies by only a couple of billion. You could argue that those fellows out there on the fruited plain are in effect working for the federal government and that, therefore, the U.S. now has socialized agriculture under the Reagan Administration. Rich, eh?

  Daniel Seligman

  Couple, Years, Agriculture

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• Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn't know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He's always had an agent for that.

  Bob Hope

  Lying, Typical, Agents

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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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• If Reagan wins, I'd sell the farm and buy a bomb shelter.

  George McGovern

  Winning, Bomb Shelters, Bombs

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