American politics quotes

14 quotes

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

Theodore Roosevelt

The American people abhor a vacuum.

Theodore Roosevelt

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

Hunter S. Thompson

The term ‚the American Left‘ is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn’t really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.

Christopher Hitchens

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.

Thomas Jefferson

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

Richard M. Nixon

Only Americans can hurt America.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

We’ve become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that’s been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I’ve ever seen in my life.

Jimmy Carter

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

Hunter S. Thompson

If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.

Lyndon B. Johnson

A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind – the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.

Jackie Robinson

I’m sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

Alice Walker

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

Dan Quayle

I think the American people, with some justification, think that most politicians live in la-la land.

John Kennedy