#american politics

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

— Rob Walton

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George Clooney's 'Ides of March' could be the most under-appreciated movie of the year. In 20 years they're gonna go back and say, 'Oh, that was American politics in that time period.' I follow politics, I love it, and that movie is so authentic. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

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I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it. ↗

— Theodore White

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With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind. ↗

— Theodore White

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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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