American Politics Quotes - Page 5

• PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Pigs, Games, Politics

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.187, University of Georgia Press

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• My sense of American politics is that most of our politicians are for sale, whether they are out and out crooked, or simply beholden to corporate interests because they've taken so much money from their lobbyists.

  Kam Williams

  Taken, Lobbyists, Politician

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• Conspiracy theories abound in American politics. I don't think we need to be subliminable about the differences between our views on prescription drugs.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Thinking, Differences

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• The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt. Everest of American politics, becoming an historic first.

  Randall Kennedy

  Accomplishment, Firsts, Becoming

  "Law professor-author Randall Kennedy". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. September 1, 2011.

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• I think I made his back feel better.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Feel Better, Thinking, Made

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• Mr. Rockefeller is due to entertain munificently at breakfast, and make his pitch. My advice to one invited guest was: Order caviar, and then say No.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Order, Advice, Caviar

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• We're going to get that little bug before that little bug gets my poll ratings down any further.

  Jerry Brown

  Littles, Bugs, Rating

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• [Richard M. Nixon was] a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Integrity, Men, Soul

  "Pageant" Magazine, July 1968.

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• [Jerry Brown] is California's way of celebrating the Year of the Child.

  Jimmy Carter

  Children, Years, California

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• Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money. I thought that was Tip O'Neill.

  Ronald Reagan

  Rounds

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• Anybody who suggests that I run for governor is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living in Albany, which is small-town life at its worst.

  Ed Koch

  Running, No Friends, Towns

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• We don't need more politicians insisting we have deficits because you're not taxed enough. Those deficits ballooned from an economy that didn't grow enough and from 50 years of government spending too much.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Years, Too Much

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Revenues should be increased not by increasing the tax rates on the individual but by building a bigger economy for everybody.

  Ronald Reagan

  Building, Economy, Individual

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• I like a President who tells jokes instead of appointing them.

  Bob Hope

  President, Jokes

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• Here is a good bill that's needed in America. If it's unconstitutional, let the U.S. Supreme Court reverse its opinion and get in line with New Hampshire and that will make it constitutional.

  Meldrim Thomson, Jr.

  America, Lines, Bills

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• Last night when I was commenting on the FBI and the CIA, the sound went off for 27 minutes. I should have known better.

  Jimmy Carter

  Night, Should Have, Sound

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• If, after the election, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and a Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I'd quit.

  Hamilton Jordan

  Election, Quitting, States

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• Jimmy used to drink liquor. Now he's running for president and he drinks Scotch, and I've never trusted a Scotch-drinker.

  Billy Carter

  Running, Scotch, President

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• Jimmy Carter, who embraced all manner of schemes to make America a second or third-rate country, came down so squarely in favor of the double nickel [the 55 mph National Speed Limit]...This is the same Jimmy Carter whose limosine with him in it, just a little later in his presidency, was timed at an average of 72 mph for the 21.5 mile trip from Detroit Metro to the Detroit Plaza Hotel. He didn't want to be late for a campaign appearance.

  Patrick Bedard

  Country, America, Mph

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• If you're in the penaut business you learn to think small.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Thinking, Ifs

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• The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.

  Lester Maddox

  Lying, Thinking, Reason

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• He [Jimmy Carter] says his lust is in his heart. I hope it's a little lower.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Heart, Lust, Littles

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• Most of us had never seen a sober redneck before, and we have the Reagan Landslide to testify that none of us ever wants to see one again. It was a horrifying apparition. And ever since Jimmy Carter, all of us rednecks have had to be very careful to be drunk rednecks lest we turn into some kind of awful creature with big buck teeth and a State Department full of human-rights yahoos.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Redneck, Rights, Drunk

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• In the current [Carter] administration, who can use the White House swimming pool and tennis courts is decided at the very highest level. President Ford did not bother himself with such minor details. He let me swim in the pool. He only got upset when I tried to walk across the water.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Swimming, White, Water

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• Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a collection of letters sent from scout camp.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Book, Diaries, Letters

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