American Politics Quotes

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

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

John ain't been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.

The President is aware of what is going on. That is not to say that something is going on.

You know, I'm just not going to get into American politics.

Money is power in American politics. It always has been.

I'm not the Carter who'll never tell a lie.

[Mondale] was not born; he was appointed.

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

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

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

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

Would anyone else like to say anything nice about women?

Im no expert on American politics.

What I really hope for, ultimately, is that the closet will be a non-factor in American politics in a couple of decades.

Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.

I always say, when they ask me about American politics, is for you guys to decide who you elect.

Is there decency left in American politics?

I will not rest until I have transformed the landscape of American politics.

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

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

I'm at a place of deep cynicism about American politics.

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

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