#american politics

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

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A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics. ↗

— Peter Jennings

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If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself. ↗

— Karl Rove

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And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there. ↗

— Marco Rubio

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I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election. ↗

— Danny Strong

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There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through. ↗

— John Gunther

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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. ↗

— Dick Morris

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I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration. ↗

— Robert Reich

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American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

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The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice. ↗

— Rob Walton

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