American Politics Quotes - Page 5

• PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Pigs, Games, Politics

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.187, University of Georgia Press

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• Mi impresión de la política estadounidense es que la mayoría de nuestros políticos están en venta, ya sean corruptos o simplemente estén en deuda con los intereses de las empresas porque han recibido mucho dinero de sus grupos de presión.

  Kam Williams

  Taken, Lobbyists, Politician

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• Las teorías de la conspiración abundan en la política estadounidense. No creo que haya que sublimar las diferencias entre nuestros puntos de vista sobre los medicamentos con receta.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Thinking, Differences

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• The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt. Everest of American politics, becoming an historic first.

  Randall Kennedy

  Accomplishment, Firsts, Becoming

  "Law professor-author Randall Kennedy". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. September 1, 2011.

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• I think I made his back feel better.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Feel Better, Thinking, Made

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• Mr. Rockefeller is due to entertain munificently at breakfast, and make his pitch. My advice to one invited guest was: Order caviar, and then say No.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Order, Advice, Caviar

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

  Jerry Brown

  Littles, Bugs, Rating

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• [Richard M. Nixon was] a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Integrity, Men, Soul

  "Pageant" Magazine, July 1968.

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

  Jimmy Carter

  Children, Years, California

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

  Ronald Reagan

  Rondas

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• 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.

  Ed Koch

  Running, No Friends, Towns

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• No necesitamos más políticos que insistan en que tenemos déficits porque no se pagan suficientes impuestos. Esos déficits se dispararon por culpa de una economía que no crecía lo suficiente y de 50 años de excesivo gasto público.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Years, Too Much

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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

  Ronald Reagan

  Building, Economy, Individual

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• Me gusta un Presidente que cuenta chistes en lugar de nombrarlos.

  Bob Hope

  President, Jokes

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• Here is a good bill that's needed in America. If it's unconstitutional, let the U.S. Supreme Court reverse its opinion and get in line with New Hampshire and that will make it constitutional.

  Meldrim Thomson, Jr.

  America, Lines, Bills

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• Last night when I was commenting on the FBI and the CIA, the sound went off for 27 minutes. I should have known better.

  Jimmy Carter

  Night, Should Have, Sound

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• Si después de las elecciones encontramos a un Cy Vance como Secretario de Estado y a un Zbigniew Brzezinski como jefe de Seguridad Nacional, entonces diría que hemos fracasado. Y renunciaría.

  Hamilton Jordan

  Election, Quitting, States

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• Jimmy used to drink liquor. Now he's running for president and he drinks Scotch, and I've never trusted a Scotch-drinker.

  Billy Carter

  Running, Scotch, President

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• Jimmy Carter, who embraced all manner of schemes to make America a second or third-rate country, came down so squarely in favor of the double nickel [the 55 mph National Speed Limit]...This is the same Jimmy Carter whose limosine with him in it, just a little later in his presidency, was timed at an average of 72 mph for the 21.5 mile trip from Detroit Metro to the Detroit Plaza Hotel. He didn't want to be late for a campaign appearance.

  Patrick Bedard

  Country, America, Mph

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• If you're in the penaut business you learn to think small.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Thinking, Ifs

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• La razón por la que él [Jimmy Carter] dice que nunca miente es porque piensa que la verdad se origina en él.

  Lester Maddox

  Lying, Thinking, Reason

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

  Shirley MacLaine

  Heart, Lust, Littles

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• La mayoría de nosotros no habíamos visto nunca a un paleto sobrio, y tenemos la avalancha de Reagan para atestiguar que ninguno de nosotros quiere volver a ver uno. Fue una aparición horripilante. Y desde Jimmy Carter, todos los paletos hemos tenido que tener mucho cuidado de ser paletos borrachos para no convertirnos en una especie de criatura horrible con grandes dientes de ciervo y un Departamento de Estado lleno de patanes de los derechos humanos.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Redneck, Rights, Drunk

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• En la actual administración [Carter], quién puede utilizar la piscina y las pistas de tenis de la Casa Blanca se decide al más alto nivel. El Presidente Ford no se preocupaba de esos detalles menores. Me dejó nadar en la piscina. Sólo se enfadó cuando intenté cruzar el agua andando.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Swimming, White, Water

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• 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.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Book, Diaries, Letters

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