Top 37 Presidential Politics Quotes

#1. Even after the Rosenthal column, nobody responsible in the Republican Party said, 'Yes, Pat Buchanan is an anti-Semite.' They didn't join in. Very few journalists joined in. What happened was, when he entered the presidential politics, then he entered a new level of criticism and attack on him.

Robert Novak

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#2. On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.

Ed Gillespie

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#3. Bush had expertise in one thing: How to run a Presidential campaign. He understands campaigns and Presidential politics. He has no interest or disposition or I think probably - he's not stupid, but he's not bright, he's not a rocket scientist - he isn't interested in policy.

John Dean

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#4. I have a job to do ... If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, then you don't know me.

Chris Christie

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#5. Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

Rich Lowry

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#6. The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.

Steven Weber

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#7. For more than a half-century, anti-intellectualism has had a pretty good run in presidential politics. In fact, Republicans would never have gotten where they are without it.

Peter Beinart

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#8. We are all encouraged that Bush appears, really for the first time in his experience on the stage of presidential politics, relaxed. His comfort is our comfort.

John Dean

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#9. This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.

John Podhoretz

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#10. Sarah Palin is backing in be to Republican presidential politics in a big way with a big high profile endorsement decision.That is, I think, probably going to cause a lot of upset in one particular part of the Republican establishment.

Rachel Maddow

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#11. The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

William Devane

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#12. The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go to the Final Four. But the third seed [in presidential politics] is shut out.

Ralph Nader

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#13. When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

John W. Gardner

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#14. By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

Gore Vidal

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#15. From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.

William Allen White

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#16. I don't want some mom, whose son may have recently died, to see the commander in chief playing golf.

George W. Bush

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#17. To understand what's happening in the U.S. presidential election of 2016, you need to know what's going on in the year 2024! Soundscape: Where hearing is believing.

Royce Flippin

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#18. He "wasn't used to being criticized, and he never did get it through his head that's what politics is all about. He was used to getting his ass kissed."

Harry S. Truman

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#19. Attack politics costs us dearly in terms of insight into the candidates. In a presidential campaign, the focus is so tight that the politicians are afraid to say anything that hasn't been scripted.

Jack Germond

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#20. When the Founding Fathers arrived here in Philadelphia to forge a new nation, they didn't come as Democrats or Republicans or to nominate a presidential candidate. They came as patriots who feared party politics.

Michael Bloomberg

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#21. To the new president, Abraham Lincoln: Sir, if on attaining the presidency you are as happy as I am upon leaving it, then, sir, you are a happy man indeed.

James Buchanan

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#22. Sometimes in the middle of a presidential campaign, there's a political movie, and people are sick of hearing about politics, and they don't want to see that movie. They'd rather see "Godzilla."

Casey Affleck

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#23. Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.

George Stephanopoulos

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#24. There are cycles in American politics. US cycles are even more pronounced because we Americans have a totally entrepreneurial presidential system. We don't have parliamentary opposition parties with a shadow prime minister and shadow cabinets. Every four years, the opposition reinvents itself.

Charles Krauthammer

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#25. Because of racism, he can't govern effectively' is not a great argument for re-election.

James Taranto

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#26. Just as I went into politics because Joe died, if anything happened to me tomorrow, my brother Bobby would run for my seat in the Senate. And if Bobby died, Teddy would take over for him.

John F. Kennedy

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#27. The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.

Hugh Sidey

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#28. The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.

Susan Estrich

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#29. For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.

Glenn Greenwald

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#30. Having an energy conversation without talking about climate is like talking about smoking and not talking about cancer.

Chris Hayes

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#31. Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Upfront' interview]

Noam Chomsky

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#32. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has taken American politics by storm.

Sean Hannity

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#33. The author's alliterative description of politics since the 1960 presidential debates: "Government by Gotcha".

David Pietrusza

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#34. When all is said and done and the e-book is written about politics and the Internet, it is not going to be about the presidential election. It will be about the smaller elections in aggregate that have a huge effect on people's lives.

Joe Green

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#35. It was Bill Clinton who once pithily captured the contrast between the two parties when it came to selecting a presidential standard-bearer: Democrats want to fall in love; Republicans just fall in line.

Mark Halperin

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#36. [O]nce demagogy and falsehoods become routine, there isn't much for the political journalist to do except handicap the race and report on the candidate's mood.

George Packer

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#37. One presidential advisor to another: If the world made sense, we'd all have to find honest work.

Tom Clancy

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