Words matter. These are the best American Politics Quotes from famous people such as Stephen Moore, Theodore White, Ben Fountain, Tom Steyer, Bob Schieffer, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The first iron rule of American politics is Follow the Money. This explains, oh, about 80 percent of what goes on in Washington.
With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.
Americans care a lot about authenticity, rightly so. Every election is a quest for the genuine article. This is precisely what makes the long con of American politics such a rich and mystifying study.
In American politics, the deepest rivalry is between the rational world and the right wing of the GOP, who are increasingly marginalized in their view that America cannot take on the big challenges.
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.
The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.
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.
Is there decency left in American politics?
It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.
Momentum has always counted for something, not everything, but it’s always perceived as being something that matters in American politics.
‘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.
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.
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.
The new rule in American politics is that no one can make it to the White House without the Hispanic vote.
American politics, like most things, is a story of what statisticians describe as the reversion to the mean.
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.
I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.
I don’t think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.
Of the many ways in which Donald J. Trump is disrupting American politics, one of the most compelling is his disregard for the established rules of communicating with voters.
The dreadful decision in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission was the culmination of the Republican appointees’ careful work to open American politics to corporate influence.
Barack Obama has brought glamour back to American politics – not the faux glamour-by-association of campaigning with movie stars or sailing with the Kennedys, but the real thing. The candidate himself is glamorous. Audiences project onto him the personal qualities and political positions they want in a president.
It is not white nationalism to believe that growing ideological uniformity in the commanding heights of culture makes American politics more polarized.
The classic rules of American politics are dying, if not dead, if you look at the last two presidential elections. An African-American could never be president until one was; a TV reality star couldn’t become president until one was.
I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.
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.
American politics is always an open competition.
We’ve had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia.
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.
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.
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.
I’m no expert on American politics.
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
One of the greatest falsehoods of American politics over the past several decades is that the Republican party is the party of fiscal responsibility.
There was always the paranoid strain in American politics, particularly on the Right.
In American politics, ‘Europe’ is usually a code word for ‘big government.’
Democrats should have learned in 2016 that what counts in American politics is location, not turnout.
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.
Politics is a rough and tumble business, and yet there seems to be an effort by the commentariat to sanitise American politics to some type of high-level Victorian debating society.
Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable.
If you’re looking for the phony in American politics, you could do worse than follow the money.
There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.
The largest untapped constituency in American politics are the 300 million American citizens who have been completely left out of the immigration debate.
Conservatives complain that the Supreme Court is too liberal. Liberals complain that it’s too conservative. Both charges are inaccurate: in reality the Court is a careful political actor that arguably represents the center of gravity of American politics better than most politicians do.
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.
‘Politico Magazine’ listed me among the top 50 ‘thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics’ for my work in coalitions advancing net neutrality.
This would seem to be a truism in contemporary American politics: The electorate opts for serious leaders, but almost always men who are able to poke fun at themselves – and the gravitas of their position.
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.
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.
Today, the District of Columbia has more residents than at least two other states; Puerto Rico has more than 20. With numbers like that, admitting either or both to the union is less a political power play on the Democrats’ part than the late-19th-century partisan move that still warps American politics.
In American politics, there’s a recurring fantasy, nurtured by the press, about ‘courageous’ politicians who do the right thing against their political interest. But really, isn’t it even more encouraging when the right thing has just become good politics?
I’ve often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.
I think that Obama’s failure to reestablish the rule of law in money matters is the most damaging thing that he’s done – and perhaps the most damaging thing that has happened in American politics in my lifetime. Because once the rule of law is absent in money matters, then anything really goes in politics.
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.
The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.
In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you’ve always got a puncher’s chance.
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