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“When it came to the division of power, we did not get from the Jews the slice of cake we deserved... the Jews do not share with us control of wealth, broadcasting stations and other centers of power.”

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Author:Jesse Jackson

“Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.”

People Way Sometimes Loses Struggle Unfortunate American Politics

Author:Jesse Jackson

“If I were a white candidate, I'd have won the Democratic nomination.”

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Author:Jesse Jackson

“Fear and hatred are the legacy of Ronald Reagan. America's vision of peace and freedom [is being] blasted by the guns of the U.S. Navy in Lebanon, the guns of U.S. paratroopers in Grenada, and the guns of U.S. helicopters in Honduras and El Salvador.”

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Author:Alan Cranston

“It could well be the end of justice in America. Do not let Mr. Reagan get his hands on that court.”

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Author:Walter F. Mondale

“Glenn must think he's still in space. He's orbiting the issues faster than he orbited earth.”

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Author:Ernest Hollings

“I've seen the film. And I'll tell you this, I'm glad Chuck Yeager isn't running for President.”

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Author:Walter F. Mondale

“Gary Hart is going to be all over the political spectrum fuzzing it up just like Jack Kennedy.”

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Author:Robert Novak

“Are you attracted by his new ideas or his new poll ratings?”

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Author:Pat Buchanan

“Hart is still like that little tub of vaguely milklike gunk that comes with airline coffee. It is labeled a "nondairy" product. Fine: we know what is is non, but what is it?”

Knows Littles Stills Products Fine Coffee American Politics Airline Tubs Hart

Author:George Will

“On March 8 a poll showed Hart 9 points ahead of Reagan. So perhaps 60 million Americans, 55 million of whom had not heard of Hart a month ago, have suddenly decided thay want him to be leader of the free world. The public mind is not just soft wax, it's runny.”

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Author:George Will

“I had a new idea on the way to this meeting this morning, but that doesn't mean we should put it in the platform.”

Way Should Mean Ideas Morning Meetings Platforms New Ideas American Politics

Author:Michael D. Barnes

“We should have at least one new idea in the job training part of the platform. Otherwise, why don't we just take the 1964 platform and adopt it?”

Should Ideas Jobs Training Should Have Platforms New Ideas American Politics Job Training

Author:Tim Wirth

“Fritz Mondale is not some synthetic Masked Marvel or Mystery Man. He is not made of silicon and micro-chip flakes. He is made of flesh and blood and brains.”

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Author:Lane Kirkland

“Tomorrow, I'm going to a soup kitchen in Mobile. I think that will symbolize the insensitivity of this administration to human needs.”

Thinking Needs Humans Tomorrow Administration Kitchen Soup American Politics Mobile Human Needs Insensitivity Soup Kitchens

Author:Walter F. Mondale

“If you're tempted to believe with Governor Cuomo that government is just like Mom and Pop rather than Big Brother, just ask yourself one question: When was the last time all the IRS wanted from you was a hug and a kiss.”

Ifs Believe Bigs Government Wanted Lasts Asks Brother Mom Kissing Pops Hug Governors Last Time Tempted American Politics Irs

Author:Paul Laxalt

“When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.”

World Treats Democrat Affair Convinced Sand Hiding American Politics San Francisco Dove Hawks Foreign Affairs Afterthought Ostriches

Book:Legitimacy and Force: State Papers and Current Perspectives: Volume 1: Political and Moral Dimensions

Source: Legitimacy and Force: State Papers and Current Perspectives: Volume 1: Political and Moral Dimensions

“It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale.”

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Book:National and international dimensions

Source: National and international dimensions

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

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Author:Patrick Caddell

“The Democratic party today is not so much a political party as a milling herd, and the herd is easily stampeded.”

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Author:Emmett Tyrrell

“We are creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud wrestling and The Gong Show seem to have claimed the national campaign.”

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Author:Hugh Sidey

“The good news is that the president gets another chance. The bad news is that he'll be two weeks older.”

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Author:Johnny Carson

“[Deficits are] a yawner. We, as Republicans, have talked about deficits and balanced budgets since the days of Roosevelt, and the people simply haven't listened, because they can't relate to those huge numbers.”

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Author:Paul Laxalt

“[The Democrats] will say that the Reagan administrtion has given benefits to the rich at the expense of the poor - a term that they define broadly to include middle-income people, women, minorities, the aged, the young, farmers, steelworkers, and others.”

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Author:Herbert Stein

“For almost 50 years polls have shown that a large majority of the public believe that the budget should be balanced, and for all that time they have elected office seekers who would not balance it. The public cares about deficits, but doesn't care much.”

Should Years Believe Care Balance Office Majority Budgets Balanced Deficit Polls American Politics Seekers

Author:Herbert Stein

“Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.”

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Author:Ed Koch

“There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“You can never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to wet their finger and hold it in the wind.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.”

Modern Involved American Politics Attacking

Author:William J. Clinton

“Christians belong in American politics because there is not and cannot be a fundamental separation between our moral vocation and our citizenship.”

Christian Moral Fundamentals Separation Citizenship Vocation American Politics

Author:Alan Keyes

“Obama is not just a powerful speaker, but a thinker engaged with the ideas of his country and his age--this argument by historian James Kloppenberg should therefore fascinate anyone interested in American politics or how ideas shape public life. Tracing the influences of Obama's family, educational, and work experiences on his ideas, Reading Obama locates a unique individual in the crosscurrents of American democracy and continuing fights over American ideals.”

“There was never a promise that race relations in America would be entirely resolved during my presidency or anybody's presidency. I mean, this has been a running thread - and - and fault line in American life and American politics since its founding.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics.”

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Author:Michael Kinsley

“There have always been hucksters, cranks and populists who see a brief rise in American politics, going back to William Jennings Bryan at the turn of the century. The body politic has a way of expelling these invaders.”

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Author:Joseph Rago

“We've had periods of meanness in American politics. Actually, the dawn of partisan division in America was basically in George Washington's second term, when it was obvious that he would be the first and only consensus president.”

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Author:William J. Clinton

“I'm Canadian so American politics are not really in my wheelhouse.”

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Author:Ryan Gosling

“There is more to American politics than fat cats and their political friends. There are serious-minded liberals who fight the good fight on many issues, ecologically oriented politicians who remain true to their cause, and honest people of every political stripe who are not beholden to any wealthy people. But there are not enough of them, and they are often worn down by the constant pressure from lobbyists, lawyers and conventional politicians.”

“Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.”

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Author:George Will

“There are cycles in American politics. US cycles are even more pronounced because we Americans have a totally entrepreneurial presidential system. We don't have parliamentary opposition parties with a shadow prime minister and shadow cabinets. Every four years, the opposition reinvents itself.”

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Author:Charles Krauthammer

“American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.”

Men Produce Men And Women Great Men American Politics

Author:George Packer

“There is no doubt that the issue of race is always present in American politics and in the politics of any multiracial society. There is also no doubt that for some people it is an element in the manifested hostility to Obama. But I don't think it is the major theme at all. Obama is right when he reminds people: By the way, I was black before the election.”

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Author:Al Gore

“When it comes to giving tax breaks to the wealthy of this country, the President has a heart of gold.”

Giving Heart Country President Break Taxes Gold Wealthy American Politics Tax Breaks Heart Of Gold

Author:Tip O'Neill

“The evil is in the White House at the present time.”

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Author:Tip O'Neill

“The Senate wants you to know how terribly, sincerely sorry they are even though not a single member of today's Senate was even in office the last time America saw a lynching. Some were not even born. But that's the way we prefer our apologies in American politics. We don't apologize for our own sins.”

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Author:Mona Charen

“When I spend my time out on the campaign trail, it's usually about what I can do for somebody else. I don't like talking about myself, I don't like the whole atmosphere of how people are judged in American politics too often as to what you say instead of what you do. And so for me it's always about what can I do for you? How can I help you?”

People I Can Whole Helping Can Do Talking Campaigns Atmosphere My Time Judged Trails American Politics

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Jesse Ventura took American politics and raised it to the level of professional wrestling.”

Levels Raised Wrestling American Politics Professional Wrestling

Author:Argus Hamilton

“Walter Mondale once said God has no place in American politics and it turned out that God felt the same way about Walter Mondale.”

Way Said Felt American Politics Walter Mondale

Author:Argus Hamilton

“It is my experience that the best way to deal with American politics is 50 milligrams of Zoloft 3 times a day.”

Way Deals Best Way American Politics

Author:Will Durst

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.”

“The Democratic Party's rigidly pro-choice stance is one of the more unyielding positions in contemporary American politics.”

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Author:Ross Douthat

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