American Politics Quotes - Page 2

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

  Ronald Reagan

  Sound, Dollars, Description

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

  Peter Jennings

  Couple, Long, Week

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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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• It was Reagan who began the realignment of American politics, making the Republicans into internationalist Jeffersonians with his speech in London at the Palace of Westminster in 1982, which led to the creation of the National Endowment for Democracy and the emergence of democracy promotion as a central goal of United States foreign policy.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Goal, Democracy, Speech

  "Who Are Americans to Think That Freedom Is Theirs to Spread?". www.nytimes.com. June 26, 2005.

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• Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.

  John McCain

  Party, Als, Agents

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. March 7, 2008.

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• 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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• Barry Goldwater has definitely decided to be a candidate in '64. He will campaign in all thirteen states.

  George Carlin

  Campaigns, States, Thirteen

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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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• John ain't been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Suits, Damn

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• You know when you're milking a cow and you have all that foamy white milk in the bucket and you're just about through, when all of a sudden the cow switches her tail through a pile of manure and slaps it into that foamy white milk. That's Bill Fulbright.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  White, Buckets, Tails

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• You know when I first thought I might have a chance? When I realized that you could go into any bar in the country and insult Lyndon Johnson and nobody would punch you in the nose.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Country, Bars, Noses

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• I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wish, World, Realizing

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• Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Writing, May, Want

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• We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. "L.B.J." should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.

  Barry Goldwater

  Light, White, House

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• Bobby Kennedy is so concerned with poverty because he didn't have any as a kid.

  Ronald Reagan

  Kids, Poverty, Bobby Kennedy

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• The most momentous fact about the pattern of American politics is that we live under a persistent, obdurate, one might almost say tyrannical, two-party system. We have the Republicans and we have the Democrats, and we have almost no one else, no other strictly political aggregate that amounts to a corporal's guard in the struggle for power.

  Clinton Rossiter

  Party, Struggle, Two

  Clinton Rossiter (1964). “Parties and Politics in America”, p.3, Cornell University Press

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• I do think British and American politics rhyme. They go in cycles. They go in Thatcher-Reagan cycles, Blair-Clinton cycles.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Clinton, Blair

  "Brooks and Marcus on Cameron's victory, Senate vote to review Iran deal". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 8, 2015.

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

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Knows

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• As much as I cherish your [McCarthy's] right to a platform as an independent candidate I am not going to sit here quietly and listen to you denigrate the two party system. It has served our country well over the last two hundred years.

  John Anderson

  Country, Party, Independent

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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