American Politics Quotes - Page 11

• I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.

  Barry Goldwater

  Government, Moscow, Centralized Government

  Barry Morris Goldwater (1964). “Goldwater from A to Z: a critical handbook”

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• Mr. Fulbright hasn't said anything new or interesting or clever in five years; his intellectual well dried up the day after Walter Lippmann stopped writing his regular column.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Clever, Writing, Years

  Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word”, Pelican Publishing Company

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• The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat.

  Ronald Reagan

  Differences, Diplomats, Administration

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• Jesse Helms wants me to move to the right, Lowell Weiker wants me to move to the left, and Teddy Kennedy wants me to move back to California.

  Ronald Reagan

  Moving, California, Want

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• He [Reagan] likes to tell jokes and that's why he told the ethnic joke that got him into some trouble. Perhaps if reporters didn't overreact to a politician's telling the very same joke they routinely hear and tell in the city room, we'd get more humor.

  Robert Scheer

  Cities, Likes, Rooms

  Robert Scheer (2006). “Playing President: My Close Ecounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton--and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush”, p.77, Akashic Books

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• Carter is doing a high-wire act over a cesspool, preaching all the way. Sinclair Lewis, thou shouldst be living in this hour. We have a Warren Harding impersonating Elmer Gantry.

  Jimmy Carter

  Wire, Way, Hours

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• Reagan is both too fatalistic and too modest to be a crudaser. He doesn't have that darkness around the eyes of a George McGovern.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Eye, Darkness, Modest

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• The Democratic party is really just a giant day care center for squabbling little groups.

  Pat Buchanan

  Party, Day Care, Littles

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• Net result [of the Dept. of Agriculture's Payment in Kind - PIK - program]: total farm income, now expected to be around $25 billion, this fiscal year, will exceed total federal subsidies by only a couple of billion. You could argue that those fellows out there on the fruited plain are in effect working for the federal government and that, therefore, the U.S. now has socialized agriculture under the Reagan Administration. Rich, eh?

  Daniel Seligman

  Couple, Years, Agriculture

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• McGovern couldn't carry the South if Rhett Butler were his running mate.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Running, Butlers, Mates

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