“In the 2012 election, Obamacare, as it's called, and I'll be more polite - the ACA ...was a major issue in the campaign. I campaigned all over America for two months, everywhere I could. And in every single campaign rally I said, 'We have to repeal and replace Obamacare.' Well, the people spoke. They spoke, much to my dismay, but they spoke. And they reelected the President of the United States.” PeopleWellsSaidTwoStatesRealityAmericaPoliticalPoliticsPresidentCommunityLeadershipJusticeUnitedPartyHistoryUnited StatesDemocracyIssuesHuman NaturePolicyHealthMonthsMajorsEthicsConstitutionElectionStrategyUnityCampaignsIdeologyVotingSpokesPolitePolitical PartiesCivilityObamacareTwo MonthsDismay2012 ElectionAca Author:John McCain
“I view the United States, today, much like East Berlin. And I'm off the grid. I've tried for 20 years to warn the country about the Democrats and Republicans, and nobody's listening.” YearsCountryStatesTodayPoliticalPoliticsCommunityUnitedViewsPartyTechnologyUnited StatesDemocracyGenerationsPolicyListeningRepublicanEthicsDemocratHuman RightsIndividualityTerrorismEastIdeologyFree SpeechPolitical PartiesDisobedienceBerlinCivil DisobedienceGridsEast Berlin Author:Jesse Ventura
“The way the United States intelligence community operates is it doesn't limit itself to the protection of the homeland. It doesn't limit itself to countering terrorist threats, countering nuclear proliferation. It's also used for economic espionage, for political spying to gain some knowledge of what other countries are doing.” WayCountryStatesPoliticalUsedCommunityUnitedUnited StatesEconomicLimitsGainsThreatProtectionNuclearTerroristOther CountriesHomelandEspionageProliferationIntelligence CommunityNuclear Proliferation Author:Edward Snowden
“Just from a political perspective, do you think the president of the United States going into re-election wants gas prices to go up higher? Look, here's the bottom line with respect to gas prices: I want gas prices lower because they hurt families.” ThinkingWantLooksStatesPoliticalPresidentHurtLinesUnitedUnited StatesPerspectiveHigherElectionBottomGasBottom LineGas PricesUst Author:Barack Obama
“There is a system of terroristic states-the real terror network-that has spread throughout Latin America and elsewhere over the past several decades, and which is deeply rooted in the corporate interest and sustaining political-military-financial propaganda mechanisms of the United States and its allies in the Free World.” WorldRealStatesAmericaPastPoliticalInterestUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryFinancialTerrorSpreadDecadesCorporatePropagandaLatinAlliesMechanismElsewhereRootedOver The PastLatin AmericaSustainingFree World Author:Edward S. Herman
“Defeating terrorism in Libya can only be achieved through the political and institutional determination of a united Libyan government, which will need the strong and unequivocal support from the international community in confronting the myriad challenges facing Libya.” NeedsGovernmentPoliticalStrongCommunityChallengesUnitedSupportDeterminationInternationalTerrorismConfrontingInternational CommunityLibyaUnequivocal Author:Bernardino Leon
“America, like Britain before her, is now the great defender of the Status Quo. She has committed herself against revolution and radical change in the underdeveloped world because independent governments would destroy the world economic and political system, which assures the United States its disproportionate share of economic and political power ... America's preeminent wealth depends upon keeping things in the underdeveloped world much as they are, allowing change and modernization to proceed only in a controlled, orderly, and nonthreatening way.” WorldWayStatesGovernmentAmericaPoliticalWealthUnitedUnited StatesShareEconomicRevolutionDependsIndependentCommittedRadicalBritainControlledAllowingStatus QuoPolitical SystemsDefendersOrderlyPolitical PowerRadical ChangeModernization Author:Richard Barnet
“Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions.” StatesPoliticalUnitedUnited StatesCreditConcessions Author:Barack Obama
“The United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace.” WorldShouldWarStatesAblePoliticalUnitedUnited StatesEconomicColdReturnNormalStabilityCold WarAssured Author:George C. Marshall
“I think the United States and its British attack dog are not taken seriously anywhere in the world and can play no role in helping a political solution.” ThinkingWorldStatesPlayHelpingPoliticalUnitedRolesUnited StatesTakenDogSolutionsBritish Author:Tariq Ali
“This is one thing that's very interesting, how the people on the left always talk about separation of church and state. When you look at the theocracies all across the Middle East, where we look at constitutions that are based upon the Qur'an, I don't think you want to see that happening in the United States of America. So it is a theocratic political construct.” PeopleThinkingWantLooksStatesAmericaPoliticalLeftChurchInterestingUnitedUnited StatesOne ThingMiddleHappeningsConstitutionEastSeparationMiddle EastUnited States Of AmericaConstructsVery InterestingChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateTheocracy Author:Allen West
“As soon as I got out of jail, as soon as my trial was over, first of all, during the time I was in jail, there was an organization called the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis, and I insisted that it be called National United Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners.” FirstsPoliticalUnitedOrganizationTrialsJailPrisonerCommitteesAngelaPolitical Prisoners Author:Angela Davis
“If allowed to continue, this process will turn the United States into a declining, unfair society with an impoverished, angry, uneducated population under the control of a small, ultrawealthy elite. Such a society would be not only immoral but also eventually unstable, dangerously ripe for religious and political extremism.” IfsStatesWould BePoliticalTurnsPoliticsProcessReligiousUnitedUnited StatesAngryPopulationElitesUnfairImmoralExtremismRipeUnstableUneducatedPolitical Extremism Author:Charles Ferguson
“The real challenge is figuring out how the United States can regain control of its future from its new oligarchy and restore its position as a prosperous, fair, well-educated nation. For if we don't, the current pattern of great concentration of wealth and power will worsen, and we may face the steady immiseration of most of the American population.” IfsWellsMayRealStatesFacesPoliticalPoliticsNationsChallengesWealthUnitedUnited StatesPositionFairsPatternsPopulationCurrentsEducatedConcentrationSteadyProsperousOligarchyWell EducatedConcentration Of Wealth Author:Charles Ferguson
“During World War II, Joseph Stalin was once asked by an American writer, according to Professor Dean Russell, how he could justify conscripting all the property of all the people for use by the government to fight the war. Stalin answered by asking why they considered it more immoral and illogical to conscript lifeless property than to conscript life itself, as was being done in the United States and all other capitalistic countries. His American challenger had no answer, because there was no answer.” PeopleWorldWarCountryStatesDoneUseGovernmentPoliticalFightingPoliticsAnswersUnitedUnited StatesAskingPropertyWar Of The WorldsJustifyProfessorsWorld War IiWorld War IImmoralDeanBeing DoneIllogicalLifelessAmerican WriterAsking Why Author:Ron Paul
“My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth year from its birth, the independence of the United States. A remarkable epoch in the annals of the human race, destined in future history to form the brightest or the blackest page, according to the use or the abuse of those political institutions by which they shall, in time to come, be shaped by the human mind.” YearsMindHumansStatesUseFormPoliticalJoyWishUnitedRaceUnited StatesBirthPagesAbuseIndependenceInstitutionsHuman RaceMemorableHuman MindDestinedSolemnEpochPolitical InstitutionsFestivitiesBest Wishes Author:John Adams
“I think it's important that members of the United States Senate spend time not just on Capitol Hill but making contact with ordinary people and engaging them in the political process.” PeopleThinkingImportantStatesPoliticalProcessUnitedUnited StatesMembersOrdinaryContactHillsSenateEnd TimesEngagingOrdinary PeopleSpend TimeCapitolCapitol Hill Author:Bernie Sanders
“There's a longstanding myth about the United States that is still very prevalent in Europe [despite recent developments]. Historically the "America" of this myth is an incredible human adventure and an experiment in political democracy. But at the same time, or so we're told, it's the land of extremes where the worst can happen.” HumansStillsStatesHappensAmericaPoliticalUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyLandWorstAdventureDevelopmentEuropeIncrediblesExtremesMythExperimentsDespite Author:Bruno Dumont
“The United States is such a potent political, cultural, and economic model in the evocation of the contemporary world, that to come here, select some elements from the prototype and rearrange them, that's really interesting artistically.” WorldStatesPoliticalInterestingUnitedUnited StatesEconomicElementsModelsContemporarySelectReally InterestingPrototypeEconomic Models Author:Bruno Dumont
“Puerto Rican independence movement wasn't just rooted in some sort of personal intransigence or some passionate Latino temperament. It was rooted in economic and political reality at the time. It also made sense since the founding principles of the United States are supposedly based on government by the consent of the governed, and the sense that all men are created equal.” MenMadeStatesRealityGovernmentPoliticalUnitedPrinciplesUnited StatesEconomicMovementEqualIndependencePassionateRootedConsentFoundingTemperamentLatinoConsent Of The Governed Author:Nelson Antonio Denis
“Even in a largely depoliticized society such as the United States, with no political parties or opposition press beyond the narrow spectrum of the business-dominated consensus, it is possible for populate action to have a significant impact on policy, though indirectly. That was an important lesson for the Indochina Wars.” ImportantWarStatesActionPoliticalUnitedPartyUnited StatesPolicyLessonsImpactPressesSignificantOppositionPolitical PartiesConsensusSpectrumImportant LessonsIndochina Author:Noam Chomsky
“The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is something very new in the political theory of free nations. The quality of life has heretofore depended on the quality of the human beings who gave tone to that life, and they were its priests and its poets, not its bureaucrats.” HumansStatesGovernmentPoliticalNationsHuman BeingsUnitedQualityUnited StatesPoetTheoryConcernTonePriestsProposeQuality Of LifeJohnsonBureaucratsAmerican LifePolitical Theory Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.
“We cannot weaken or destroy political parties in ther United States without weakening or destroying the rule of the people.... Those who support party organization and submit to party discipline are supporting the only course yet discovered for orderly government by the people.” PeopleStatesGovernmentPoliticalCoursesUnitedPartyUnited StatesSupportDisciplineOrganizationDestroyingSubmitPolitical PartiesOrderlyWeakening Author:Calvin Coolidge
“The U.S. was founded by a group of political leaders who signed a document which says, "We are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights." That means that all of your political rights come from God and you then loan some of your power to the State which is why the Constitution begins, "We, the People of the United States.” PeopleMeanStatesPoliticalCertainUnitedLeaderUnited StatesRightsGroupsConstitutionCreatorDocumentsLoanPolitical LeadersInalienable RightsPolitical Rights Author:Newt Gingrich
“Any brief military advantage the USA might gain with nuclear weapons would be offset by political and psychological losses and damage to American prestige. The United States might even touch off a worldwide armaments race.” StatesMightWould BePoliticalLossUnitedRaceUnited StatesMilitaryWeaponsGainsAdvantageNuclearPsychologicalUsaDamageNuclear WeaponsPrestigeArmament Author:Albert Einstein
“It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.” ShouldHas BeensStatesPoliticalPoliticsUnitedUnited StatesIntellectualShould HaveServantIronicOutsidersShould Have BeenScapegoatPolitical History Author:Richard Hofstadter
“I worry that we don't currently have a democracy in the United States. Instead we have what [political philosopher] Sheldon Wolin has recently labeled a sort of inverted totalitarianism.” StatesPoliticalUnitedWorryUnited StatesDemocracyPhilosopherTotalitarianismInverted Author:Thomas L. Dumm
“Ultimately, I think the United States is a pretty awesome country but it very plausibly would have been even awesomer had English and American political leaders in the late 18th century been farsighted enough to find compromises that would have held the empire together.” ThinkingHas BeensCountryStatesEnoughTogetherPoliticalUnitedLeaderUnited StatesCenturyLateCompromiseEmpiresPolitical Leaders18th Century Author:Matthew Yglesias
“We knew the Syrian situation was complex and there were lots of divisions, particularly on the side of the opposition... This is a tough job... It can perhaps be done if you stand united and work with me in putting sustained pressure on the protagonists or the parties to come together and seek a political settlement.” IfsDoneTogetherJobsPoliticalSidesUnitedPartySituationToughPressureComplexesOppositionDivisionSettlementProtagonists Author:Kofi Annan
“My ardent desire is... to keep the United States free from political connexions with every other Country. To see that they may be independent of all, and under the influence of none.” MayCountryStatesPoliticalDesireUnitedUnited StatesInfluenceIndependentOther CountriesArdentConnexion Book:The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799 Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799
“What's happened in the United States is something that has already happened in Europe and that is that Islam is become 'otherised', it has become a kind of receptacle into which fears and anxieties about the political or economic situation, about the changing racial landscape of this country are being thrown.” KindCountryStatesPoliticalUnitedSituationUnited StatesHappenedEconomicAnxietyEuropeIslamLandscapeThrown Author:Reza Aslan
“I'm working hard to be president of the United States.I'm running to change things, and I'm not going to be part of the political class in Washington, D.C. I have the skills to disrupt the old order and bring about a new culture.” HardStatesRunningPoliticalOrderCulturePresidentUnitedClassUnited StatesSkillsNew Cultures Author:Jeb Bush
“In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party.” TwoStatesPoliticalUnitedPartyUnited StatesAffairPolitical SystemsFactions Author:Noam Chomsky