American Politics Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.

  Garry Trudeau

  Political, Dumb, Information

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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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• I'm still trying to figure out exactly what President Trump represents in American politics. But, if nothing else, he represents a way for tens of millions of people who were desperate for change to just turn the table over and say, we want to start over again. But it is a challenge for our democracy. It definitely is. But, again, the remedy has to be devoting enough attention to restoring the way we make collective decisions in this country.

  Al Gore

  Country, People, Starting Over

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Reagan "has conducted an arms race on earth," boomed Mondale. A race generally implies two parties. The Soviets contributed a little bit to this problem, if Mondale had not noticed.

  Hugh Sidey

  Party, Two, Race

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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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• We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their states. We will run the country.

  Jesse Jackson

  Running, Country, Baby

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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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• The American people aren't overtaxed. The government in Washington is overfed. The main difference between ourselves and the other side is: we see an America where every day is the Fourth of July. They see an America where every day is April 15.

  Ronald Reagan

  America, Government, July

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• Duarte is a moderate when it comes to civilian control of the military and curbing death squads. On economics, the man is almost a Marxist.

  Steve Forbes

  Military, Men, Squad

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• If somebody had made that [deal] to me when I was a businessman, I would have said he proposed to give me the sleeves from his vest.

  George P. Shultz

  Giving, Vests, Made

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• Mr. President, we've taken off our "Kick Me" sign.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Taken, President, Kicks

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• Do you realize that at the moment we have Barry Goldwater fighting the Moral Majority, with The New York Times rooting for Goldwater? Times have changed.

  William A. Rusher

  New York, Fighting, Times Have Changed

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• If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?

  Ronald Reagan

  Shots, Planes, Fellows

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• Reagan's half a disciple of Benjamin Franklin. He believes in early to bed.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Believe, Bed, Half

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