Top 100 Quotes About American Politics
#1. The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.
Eric Alterman
#2. To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.
Charles Krauthammer
#3. Money is power in American politics. It always has been.
William Greider
#4. 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
#5. Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.
Jack Abramoff
#6. In the high-octane, low responsibility world of American politics it was better to be seen as crazy than weak.
Richard Peters
#8. When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to be very discreet because he, President Clinton, is very aware that anything he says publicly can have a profound impact on American politics and on world politics.
Lee H. Hamilton
#9. We've had periods of meanness in American politics. Actually, the dawn of partisan division in America was basically in George Washington's second term, when it was obvious that he would be the first and only consensus president.
William J. Clinton
#10. [Facism] that incredibly loaded word we do not associate with the real American politics is being used by other conservatives, by other Republicans to talk about Donald Trump.
Rachel Maddow
#11. The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party.
Grover Norquist
#12. If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
Edna Ferber
#13. It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.
Robert Byrd
#14. American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.
Bob Schieffer
#15. Scottish politics, U.K. politics, is not really like American politics in this respect. Not everybody is absolutely obsessed with image. I'm not saying the United States is obsessed with image.
Nicola Sturgeon
#16. I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
James Carville
#17. Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.
Michael Ignatieff
#18. American politics, like most things, is a story of what statisticians describe as the reversion to the mean.
David Ignatius
#19. I've been interested in American politics since I was eight. That was in 1968. It was an interesting year. I was a huge Eugene McCarthy supporter, so I guess he was the first senator I really knew about and cared about.
George Packer
#20. George Clooney's 'Ides of March' could be the most under-appreciated movie of the year. In 20 years they're gonna go back and say, 'Oh, that was American politics in that time period.' I follow politics, I love it, and that movie is so authentic.
Harvey Weinstein
#21. American politics are normally a result of pragmatic and not philosophical reasoning. No one in Washington has said we now prefer multilateralism.
Henry A. Kissinger
#22. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has taken American politics by storm.
Sean Hannity
#24. I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.
Phil Gramm
#25. TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies.
Ambrose Bierce
#26. 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
#27. First of all, let me just say what's interesting about American politics is that if things really get bad here, people say nasty things about you. From a global perspective, if politics get bad, you die, so let's just keep some perspective here.
Marco Rubio
#28. I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority.
Tony Blankley
#29. The surly orphan of American politics ... the grim joker in the deck, whose nightrider candidacy [is] a rough approximation of the potential for an American fascism. People
Hampton Sides
#30. 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.
#31. 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
#32. Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.
George Will
#33. I was an 18-year-old kid, and I was in the heart of things in Washington. My interest in American politics and, particularly, the Kennedys, began then.
Nigel Hamilton
#34. In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.
Thomas E. Mann
#35. The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global.
Ted Sarandos
#36. Our relationship with Israel is another reason we're being attacked. But an American politician - whether Muslim or not - who criticizes Israel as a martyrdom operation in American politics cannot survive as an official or as a politician.
Michael Scheuer
#37. 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
#38. Don't you think that being a person of faith has become a third rail in American politics? If you want to run for president nowadays, you'd better get out there and say you're a very faith-based person.
Bill Maher
#39. There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing upon their respective soothing versions of unreality
Matt Taibbi
#40. Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.
Charles Krauthammer
#41. I will not rest until I have transformed the landscape of American politics.
Newt Gingrich
#43. I'm Canadian so American politics are not really in my wheelhouse.
Ryan Gosling
#44. American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.
Robert Dallek
#45. What I really hope for, ultimately, is that the closet will be a non-factor in American politics in a couple of decades.
Kirby Dick
#46. I think that no one roiled American politics and sort of scrambled the left/right dynamic more 2015 year than Pope Francis.
Joy-Ann Reid
#47. Unfortunately, in American politics there are no standards for shame.
Mark McKinnon
#48. I had worked in politics with Johnson and Nixon before becoming a historian and biographer. I kept discovering these dirtier, murkier threads in American politics that led back to Vegas' gambling interests and criminal connections.
Roger Morris
#49. Is there decency left in American politics?
Byron Dorgan
#50. There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.
John Gunther
#51. RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.
Ambrose Bierce
#52. Press critics worry that the rise of media polarization threatens the foundation of credible, common information that American politics needs to thrive.
John Harwood
#53. If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.
Karl Rove
#54. I am firmly of the view we should keep the police out of politics in Britain, or we risk going the way of American politics, where the Whitewater investigation lasted virtually the whole of the two terms of the Clinton administration but turned up nothing.
Jonathan Powell
#55. 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
#56. Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.
James McGreevey
#57. When dealing with American politics, you try to follow the money, and that's where it leads you. It doesn't take you to the electoral college or to Princeton. It takes you down the darker alleys of American life.
Roger Morris
#58. I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.
Hillary Clinton
#59. The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
Hamilton Jordan
#60. The Democratic Party's rigidly pro-choice stance is one of the more unyielding positions in contemporary American politics.
Ross Douthat
#61. I do think British and American politics rhyme. They go in cycles. They go in Thatcher-Reagan cycles, Blair-Clinton cycles.
David Brooks
#62. The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.
David Horsey
#63. What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics.
Michael Kinsley
#64. American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.
George Packer
#65. I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.
Danny Strong
#66. I'm completely fascinated with American politics because I think they dictate the politics of every nation of the Western world. So, it's very interesting to follow what's going on over here.
Nikolaj Arcel
#67. I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.
Byron Dorgan
#68. A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.
Peter Jennings
#69. I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration.
Robert Reich
#70. I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them ... That's American politics, pure and simple.
Samuel L. Jackson
#71. There was never a promise that race relations in America would be entirely resolved during my presidency or anybody's presidency. I mean, this has been a running thread - and - and fault line in American life and American politics since its founding.
Barack Obama
#72. It is my experience that the best way to deal with American politics is 50 milligrams of Zoloft 3 times a day.
Will Durst
#73. Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.
Mitch McConnell
#74. ROSS PEROT was the best thing that happened in American politics since Richard Nixon acquired a taste for gin. In both cases, the political dialogue of the day was enriched by spontaneous gibberish that entertained the wrong people and made the right ones question their faith.
Hunter S. Thompson
#75. The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.
Michael Pollan
#76. American politics are important because it affects the entire world in often negative ways.
Bryce Dessner
#77. Pat Robertson is an embarrassment to the church and a danger to American politics, .. It's time for Christian leaders of all stripes to call on Robertson not just to apologize but to retire.
Jim Wallis
#78. The largest untapped constituency in American politics are the 300 million American citizens who have been completely left out of the immigration debate.
Jeff Sessions
#79. 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
#80. Nothing so extraordinary has ever happened in American politics," a dazed Harold Ickes wrote. "Here was a man - a Democrat until a couple of years ago - who, without any organization went into a Republican National Convention and ran away with the nomination for President .
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#81. 'Politico Magazine' listed me among the top 50 'thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics' for my work in coalitions advancing net neutrality.
Marvin Ammori
#82. A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
Theodore Roosevelt
#83. The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics.
Roscoe Conkling
#84. Friends, there is no Left in American politics.
Gore Vidal
#85. I am a Conservative: Barack Obama is the Hans Gruber of American politics. #caring
Kurt Schlichter
#86. Jesse Ventura took American politics and raised it to the level of professional wrestling.
Argus Hamilton
#87. Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
Ambrose Bierce
#88. People who do not believe in the same god or obey the same king are more than willing to use the same money. Osama Bin Laden, for all his hatred of American culture, American religion and American politics, was very fond of American dollars. How did money succeed where gods and kings failed?
Yuval Noah Harari
#89. In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'
James Surowiecki
#90. There have always been hucksters, cranks and populists who see a brief rise in American politics, going back to William Jennings Bryan at the turn of the century. The body politic has a way of expelling these invaders.
Joseph Rago
#91. The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip on each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.
Hunter S. Thompson
#92. DELEGATION, n. In American politics, an article of merchandise that comes in sets.
Ambrose Bierce
#93. The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.
Rob Walton
#94. Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
Hunter S. Thompson
#95. 'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.
Dick Morris
#96. I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.
Theodore Roosevelt
#97. From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.
N. T. Wright
#98. Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.
Rush Limbaugh
#100. I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
Theodore White
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