American Politics Quotes - Page 2

• When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.

  Jesse Jackson

  Unions, Moral, Authority

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• One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Military, Worry, Intellectual

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• The cost of appearing with a bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me. 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

  Cost, Enough, Lows

  "George Will Calls Donald Trump a 'Bloviating Ignoramus'". abcnews.go.com. May 27, 2012.

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• I do think British and American politics rhyme. They go in cycles. They go in Thatcher-Reagan cycles, Blair-Clinton cycles.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Clinton, Blair

  "Brooks and Marcus on Cameron's victory, Senate vote to review Iran deal". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 8, 2015.

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• It was Reagan who began the realignment of American politics, making the Republicans into internationalist Jeffersonians with his speech in London at the Palace of Westminster in 1982, which led to the creation of the National Endowment for Democracy and the emergence of democracy promotion as a central goal of United States foreign policy.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Goal, Democracy, Speech

  "Who Are Americans to Think That Freedom Is Theirs to Spread?". www.nytimes.com. June 26, 2005.

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• I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wish, World, Realizing

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• 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

  Christian, Leader, Stripes

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• You almost have to be a rock star to generate the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Stars, Rocks, Needs

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• 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

  Two, America, Issues

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• 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

  Political, Agendas, Sides

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• The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.

  Larry Sabato

  Government, Offering, Iraq

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• 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

  Thinking, Impact, Government

  "The Commissioners". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. April 8, 2004.

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• Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There's just too much money.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Too Much, Influence, Agree

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• 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

  Party, Als, Agents

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. March 7, 2008.

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• The most momentous fact about the pattern of American politics is that we live under a persistent, obdurate, one might almost say tyrannical, two-party system. We have the Republicans and we have the Democrats, and we have almost no one else, no other strictly political aggregate that amounts to a corporal's guard in the struggle for power.

  Clinton Rossiter

  Party, Struggle, Two

  Clinton Rossiter (1964). “Parties and Politics in America”, p.3, Cornell University Press

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• As much as I cherish your [McCarthy's] right to a platform as an independent candidate I am not going to sit here quietly and listen to you denigrate the two party system. It has served our country well over the last two hundred years.

  John Anderson

  Country, Party, Independent

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• You know when you're milking a cow and you have all that foamy white milk in the bucket and you're just about through, when all of a sudden the cow switches her tail through a pile of manure and slaps it into that foamy white milk. That's Bill Fulbright.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  White, Buckets, Tails

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• John ain't been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Suits, Damn

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• Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Writing, May, Want

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• We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. "L.B.J." should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.

  Barry Goldwater

  Light, White, House

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• Bobby Kennedy is so concerned with poverty because he didn't have any as a kid.

  Ronald Reagan

  Kids, Poverty, Bobby Kennedy

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• They [Theodore White and Lou Harris] took turns weeping, and finally concluded that Rockefeller got the votes of everyone in California who is a Negro, a Jew, a Mexican, and a college graduate, while Goldwater got the votes of every millionaire. Which certainly makes California the land of opportunity.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Opportunity, College, Land

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• ...the traces to the East haven been broken, the Republican party will never again be dominated by the editorial writers for the New York Herald Tribune. Free at last.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  New York, Party, Broken

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• Barry Goldwater has definitely decided to be a candidate in '64. He will campaign in all thirteen states.

  George Carlin

  Campaigns, States, Thirteen

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• You know when I first thought I might have a chance? When I realized that you could go into any bar in the country and insult Lyndon Johnson and nobody would punch you in the nose.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Country, Bars, Noses

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