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“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.”

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Author:Dick Morris

“From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.”

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Author:N. T. Wright

“The most momentous fact about the pattern of American politics is that we live under a persistent, obdurate, one might almost say tyrannical, two-party system. We have the Republicans and we have the Democrats, and we have almost no one else, no other strictly political aggregate that amounts to a corporal's guard in the struggle for power.”

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Book:Parties and Politics in America

Source: Parties and Politics in America

“Conspiracy theories abound in American politics. I don't think we need to be subliminable about the differences between our views on prescription drugs.”

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Author:George W. Bush

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

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Author:Garry Trudeau

“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.”

“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

“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