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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all. ↗

— Benjamin C. Bradlee

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I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president. ↗

— James Carville

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

— Rob Walton

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

— Roscoe Conkling

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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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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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'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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Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

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A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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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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