American Politics Quotes

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
Theodore Roosevelt

Politics, Saying, Real

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

Politics, Person, Country

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.
Chuck Palahniuk

Politics, American, Lifetime

A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?
Jon Meacham

Politics, Wise, Political

And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.
Marco Rubio

Politics, America, Reason

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

Politics, Simple, Black

A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.
Peter Jennings

Politics, Time, Long

Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible.
Dee Dee Myers

Politics, Health, Care

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

Trust, Politics, Character

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

Politics, Business, Through

I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.
Peter Singer

Life, Politics, Money

It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.
Robert Byrd

Politics, Money, American

You know, I'm just not going to get into American politics.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Politics, American

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

Politics, Strong, American

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

Love, Politics, Time

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
Edna Ferber

Politics, Women, Wrong

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

Politics, True, Political

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

Politics, Him, Old

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue.
Grover Norquist

Politics, Power, Powerful

Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.
Grover Norquist

Politics, Best, Government

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

Politics, Free, American

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

Politics, Political, Happen

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

Politics, Black, Two

I'm no expert on American politics.
Bjorn Lomborg

Politics, American, Expert

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

Life, Politics, Today

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

Politics, Good, Money

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

Politics, Government, Person

The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.
Rob Walton

Politics, Learned, American

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.
George J. Mitchell

Politics, God, American

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

Politics, Happen, Cannot

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