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

Thinking Reason Lying American Politics Jimmy Carter Never Lie

“He [Jimmy Carter] says his lust is in his heart. I hope it's a little lower.”

Heart Littles Lust American Politics Jimmy Carter

“Most of us had never seen a sober redneck before, and we have the Reagan Landslide to testify that none of us ever wants to see one again. It was a horrifying apparition. And ever since Jimmy Carter, all of us rednecks have had to be very careful to be drunk rednecks lest we turn into some kind of awful creature with big buck teeth and a State Department full of human-rights yahoos.”

Want Humans Kind States Bigs Turns Rights Creatures Human Rights Careful Teeth Drunk Awful Department Sober American Politics Bucks Jimmy Redneck Carter Apparitions Landslides

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a collection of letters sent from scout camp.”

Made Book Letters Notes Memoir Collections Camps Entitled American Politics Diaries Carter Keep The Faith

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“I'm convinced Mr. Reagan would never be elected- I don't think his views are held by a majority of the American people...it's the Republican party that's going to be committing suicide by nominating candidates of that genre.”

People Thinking Views Party Republican Suicide Majority Convinced Genre Candidates Republican Party American Politics Committing Suicide Nominating

Author:John Anderson

“Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.”

Enough Political Information Deserve Comic Dumb Polls American Politics Comic Strips

Author:Garry Trudeau

“We're going to get that little bug before that little bug gets my poll ratings down any further.”

Littles Bugs Polls American Politics Rating

Author:Jerry Brown

“[Jerry Brown] is California's way of celebrating the Year of the Child.”

Way Years Children Celebrate California Brown American Politics Jerry

Author:Jimmy Carter

“In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.”

Conservative American Politics Tennessee Bolsheviks

Author:Howard Baker

“Jesse Helms wants me to move to the right, Lowell Weiker wants me to move to the left, and Teddy Kennedy wants me to move back to California.”

Want Moving Left California Want Me American Politics Teddy Helm

Author:Ronald Reagan

“The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat.”

Knows Differences Administration American Politics Carter Diplomats Doormat

Author:Ronald Reagan

“He [Reagan] likes to tell jokes and that's why he told the ethnic joke that got him into some trouble. Perhaps if reporters didn't overreact to a politician's telling the very same joke they routinely hear and tell in the city room, we'd get more humor.”

Ifs Rooms Cities Trouble Politician Jokes Likes Reporters American Politics

Book:Playing President: My Close Ecounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton--and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush

Source: Playing President: My Close Ecounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton--and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush

“Carter is doing a high-wire act over a cesspool, preaching all the way. Sinclair Lewis, thou shouldst be living in this hour. We have a Warren Harding impersonating Elmer Gantry.”

Way Hours Preaching Wire American Politics Carter Harding Warren Harding

Author:Jimmy Carter

“Reagan is both too fatalistic and too modest to be a crudaser. He doesn't have that darkness around the eyes of a George McGovern.”

Eye Darkness Modest American Politics

Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“The Democratic party is really just a giant day care center for squabbling little groups.”

Littles Care Party Groups Democratic Giants American Politics Democratic Party Day Care

Author:Pat Buchanan

“Net result [of the Dept. of Agriculture's Payment in Kind - PIK - program]: total farm income, now expected to be around $25 billion, this fiscal year, will exceed total federal subsidies by only a couple of billion. You could argue that those fellows out there on the fruited plain are in effect working for the federal government and that, therefore, the U.S. now has socialized agriculture under the Reagan Administration. Rich, eh?”

“Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money. I thought that was Tip O'Neill.”

Rounds American Politics

Author:Ronald Reagan

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

Loses Moral Authority Unions Afghanistan Soviet Soviet Union American Politics Credibility Moral Authority Czechoslovakia Grenada

Author:Jesse Jackson

“Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn't know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He's always had an agent for that.”

Knows Lying Know How Politician Stealing Agents Cheat Typical American Politics

Author:Bob Hope

“Anybody who suggests that I run for governor is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living in Albany, which is small-town life at its worst.”

Running Worst Position Mines Terrible Towns Governors Small Town American Politics No Friends Small Town Life Albany

Author:Ed Koch

“We don't need more politicians insisting we have deficits because you're not taxed enough. Those deficits ballooned from an economy that didn't grow enough and from 50 years of government spending too much.”

Needs Years Enough Government Grows Economy Too Much Politician Spending Deficit American Politics Insisting Government Spending

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“Revenues should be increased not by increasing the tax rates on the individual but by building a bigger economy for everybody.”

Should Individual Economy Building Taxes Bigger Rate Revenue American Politics

Author:Ronald Reagan

“I like a President who tells jokes instead of appointing them.”

President Jokes American Politics

Author:Bob Hope

“The American people aren't overtaxed. The government in Washington is overfed. The main difference between ourselves and the other side is: we see an America where every day is the Fourth of July. They see an America where every day is April 15.”

People Government America Sides Differences Fourth American Politics April July

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Duarte is a moderate when it comes to civilian control of the military and curbing death squads. On economics, the man is almost a Marxist.”

Men Military He Man Economics Moderates American Politics Civilians Marxist Squad

Author:Steve Forbes

“If somebody had made that [deal] to me when I was a businessman, I would have said he proposed to give me the sleeves from his vest.”

Ifs Giving Made Said Deals Give Me Businessman American Politics Sleeves Vests

Author:George P. Shultz

“Mr. President, we've taken off our "Kick Me" sign.”

President Taken Kicks American Politics

Author:Jeane Kirkpatrick

“Do you realize that at the moment we have Barry Goldwater fighting the Moral Majority, with The New York Times rooting for Goldwater? Times have changed.”

Moments Fighting Realizing Moral New York Changed Majority American Politics New York Times Times Have Changed

Author:William A. Rusher

“If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?”

Ifs Shots Fellows Planes American Politics

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Reagan's half a disciple of Benjamin Franklin. He believes in early to bed.”

Believe Half Bed Disciple American Politics Franklin

Author:Lyn Nofziger

“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.”

Seems Policy Approach Our Society Arena Deficit American Politics

Author:Victor Saul Navasky

“...it is the Far Right today that establishes the terms of the nuclear debate. And in this context, in a room ringing with hysterical pleas on behalf of Reagan's eerie laser-beam technology, the MacBundys of the world seem eminently, refreshingly sane.”

World Seems Today Term Rooms Technology Nuclear Debate Sane Behalf American Politics Beam Hysterical Lasers Eerie

Author:David Talbot

“Well, it is alarming to have a president [Reagan] who doesn't know what he is doing.”

Knows Wells President American Politics President Reagan

Author:McGeorge Bundy

“They [Nicaragua] haven't had elections because they are in a state of seige by the United States. They would have had elections if the U.S. had left them alone. But the U.S. has mounted a full scale war against them. So how can you ask them to behave normally?”

Ifs War States Asks Left United United States Havens Election Scales Behave American Politics Nicaragua

Author:Allen Ginsberg

“Reagan "has conducted an arms race on earth," boomed Mondale. A race generally implies two parties. The Soviets contributed a little bit to this problem, if Mondale had not noticed.”

Ifs Littles Two Problem Earth Bits Party Race Arms Little Bit American Politics Arms Race

Author:Hugh Sidey

“The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy.”

Dream America Left Democratic Envy American Dream American Politics Gloom Graveyard Democratic Leadership

Author:Ronald Reagan

“The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.”

Party Leader Democracy Democratic Communism American Politics Democratic Party

Author:Jack Kemp

“Third parties in America gravitate not only to the extremes, but to irrelevance. (John Anderson's upcoming presidential campaign will undoubtedly confirm both tendencies.)”

America Party Thirds Extremes Campaigns Tendencies Presidential American Politics Third Parties Presidential Campaign Irrelevance

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“The meeting [in San Antonio of the National Women's Political Caucus] featured a cattle show at which a herd of Democratic candidates- Glenn, Cranston, Mondale, Hart, and Hollings- pantingly pantomined their fidelity to feminism, stopping just short of a pledge to use nuclear weapons against any states that omit to ratify the Equal Right Amendment.”

“Would anyone else like to say anything nice about women?”

Nice Say Anything American Politics

Author:Ted Koppel

“My good friend Walter Mondale is a good lapdog. He'll give them [special interest groups] everything they want. He'll lick every hand.”

Want Giving Hands Interest Groups Special Good Friend American Politics Special Interests Interest Groups Special Interest Groups Walter Mondale

Author:Ernest Hollings

“[Mondale] was not born; he was appointed.”

Born American Politics

Author:Ernest Hollings

“Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.”

Christian Heritage Odds American Politics Christian Heritage

Author:George McGovern

“If Reagan wins, I'd sell the farm and buy a bomb shelter.”

Ifs Winning Sells Bombs Farms Shelter American Politics Bomb Shelters

Author:George McGovern

“I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.”

Vote Paid Dues American Politics

Author:Jesse Jackson

“We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their states. We will run the country.”

Country States Running Cities Baby American Politics Cotton

Author:Jesse Jackson

“I'm a Third World person. I grew up in an occupied zone [Greenville, South Carolina] and had to negotiate with the superpower, really the colonial power.”

World Persons Grew Grew Up Thirds South Zone American Politics Third World Superpower Carolina South Carolina

Author:Jesse Jackson

“Jesse Jackson has to get back to "I am somebody" instead of "I am some color."”

Color Get Back American Politics

Author:Ernest Hollings

“Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.”

Needs Kind Home Action Black White Protect Labor Competition Slave Workers International Black And White Unfair Robots American Politics Affirmative Action Affirmative Slave Labor

Author:Jesse Jackson

“The most critical problem we face, not only in the barrios, but in Nicaragua and Central America, is that of the threat of an invasion by the United States.”

States Problem America Faces United United States Threat Critical American Politics Invasion Nicaragua Central America

Author:Jackie Jackson

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