Best American Politics Quotes

Their appetite is the same. Their motives are the same. It’s only their mannerisms and methods that differ.

People are getting really turned off by it. They’re not getting anything of value from the conversation that’s happening on these debates that are really like political reality TV. They are completely set up for conflict and confrontation to drive up ratings so … the corporate media can make more money.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

I can’t vote for that guy. I’d rather vote for Trump than [Biden]. I don’t think he can handle anything. You’re relying entirely on his cabinet. If you want to talk about an individual leader who can communicate, he can’t do that. And we don’t know what the fuck he’ll be like after a year in office.

The White House is in the hands of a sociopathic megalomaniac [Trump] who’s interested in nothing but his own power, electoral prospects.

When the 1st amendment doesn’t work, should we move to the next one America?

I pledge to be a President who sees not to divide but unify. Who doesn’t see red states and blue states, only sees the United States.

Biden is worse than Trump. Trump inherited the system; Biden was its architect.

That government is best which governs least.

We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.

The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.

The African American community stood up for me. You’ve always had my back. And I’ll have yours.

The only time we create any kind of substantive change is when we reach out to a disaffected electorate and inspire and motivate them to vote.

Voting for Joe Biden is not about whether you agree with him. It’s a vote to let our democracy live another day.

All the Hillary equivocators from 2016, the people who said she was racist, not really that different from Trump, the ones who voted third party, the ones who stayed home because, ‘you know, the lesser of two evils,’ sorry, but you all have to eat it one more time.

The Democrats and Republicans are indeed two wings on the same bird, but it’s a really weird mutant bird that only has two right wings.

The President of the United States summoned his mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. Everything that followed was his doing.

Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.

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

The inconvenient truth that our lazy media elites do so much to ignore is that Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders, and Warren are much closer in their views to the vast majority of ordinary Americans than the Bloombergs or the Bidens. They are the true centrists, the real moderates; they represent the actual political middle.

Americans are about to discover that their system is more vulnerable than they thought. There’s a lot of complacency in American politics, there’s a lot of complacency in advanced democracies generally.

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.

Reagan’s half a disciple of Benjamin Franklin. He believes in early to bed.

The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.

Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.

It seems to me there are good deficits and bad deficits. Now, we have a deficit that comes from the militarization of our society and our policy and our approach to the global arena.

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.

The President is aware of what is going on. That is not to say that something is going on.

[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.

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

I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.

Right now, if there’s a gender gap problem, it’s not Ronald Reagan with women; it’s with Walter Mondale with men.

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.

I will not rest until I have transformed the landscape of American politics.

I don’t think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.