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I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money. ↗

— Phil Gramm

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When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to be very discreet because he, President Clinton, is very aware that anything he says publicly can have a profound impact on American politics and on world politics. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

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The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems. ↗

— Eric Alterman

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The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics. ↗

— Roscoe Conkling

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In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

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Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many. ↗

— James McGreevey

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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

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

— Benjamin Netanyahu

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The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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