American Politics Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• It seems to me there are good deficits and bad deficits. Now, we have a deficit that comes from the militarization of our society and our policy and our approach to the global arena.

  Victor Saul Navasky

  Our Society, Arena, Deficit

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• ...it is the Far Right today that establishes the terms of the nuclear debate. And in this context, in a room ringing with hysterical pleas on behalf of Reagan's eerie laser-beam technology, the MacBundys of the world seem eminently, refreshingly sane.

  David Talbot

  Technology, Eerie, Lasers

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• Well, it is alarming to have a president [Reagan] who doesn't know what he is doing.

  McGeorge Bundy

  President, Wells, Knows

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• They [Nicaragua] haven't had elections because they are in a state of seige by the United States. They would have had elections if the U.S. had left them alone. But the U.S. has mounted a full scale war against them. So how can you ask them to behave normally?

  Allen Ginsberg

  War, Nicaragua, United States

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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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• If you're tempted to believe with Governor Cuomo that government is just like Mom and Pop rather than Big Brother, just ask yourself one question: When was the last time all the IRS wanted from you was a hug and a kiss.

  Paul Laxalt

  Mom, Brother, Believe

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• [If the Democratic nominee turns out to be] Walter Mondale, I hope he picks Representative Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. It would be a desperate move, but that's what it'll take to get rid of Reagan. Ms. Ferraro is no more unqualified than a lot of Vice Presidential candidates have been, and anyhow Mondale's in good health.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Running, Moving, Presidential

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• When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Ostriches, San Francisco, World

  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (2018). “Legitimacy and Force: State Papers and Current Perspectives: Volume 1: Political and Moral Dimensions”, p.594, Routledge

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• It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Malaise, Carter, Walter Mondale

  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1988). “National and international dimensions”, p.419, Transaction Publishers

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• The Democratic party today is not so much a political party as a milling herd, and the herd is easily stampeded.

  Emmett Tyrrell

  Party, Political, Today

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• I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.

  Jesse Jackson

  Vote, Dues, Paid

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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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• I'm a Third World person. I grew up in an occupied zone [Greenville, South Carolina] and had to negotiate with the superpower, really the colonial power.

  Jesse Jackson

  South Carolina, World, Grew Up

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• Jesse Jackson has to get back to "I am somebody" instead of "I am some color."

  Ernest Hollings

  Color, Get Back

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• Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.

  Jesse Jackson

  Home, Black And White, Slave Labor

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• When it came to the division of power, we did not get from the Jews the slice of cake we deserved... the Jews do not share with us control of wealth, broadcasting stations and other centers of power.

  Jesse Jackson

  Cake, Division, Wealth

  "Shocking New Book Released on Jesse Jackson". "CNN Crossfire", www.cnn.com. March 6, 2002.

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• Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.

  Jesse Jackson

  Struggle, People, Way

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• If I were a white candidate, I'd have won the Democratic nomination.

  Jesse Jackson

  White, Nominations, Democratic

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• Fear and hatred are the legacy of Ronald Reagan. America's vision of peace and freedom [is being] blasted by the guns of the U.S. Navy in Lebanon, the guns of U.S. paratroopers in Grenada, and the guns of U.S. helicopters in Honduras and El Salvador.

  Alan Cranston

  Gun, America, Hatred

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• It could well be the end of justice in America. Do not let Mr. Reagan get his hands on that court.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Hands, America, Justice

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