POLITICS (U.S.A.) : For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. (Robert F. Kennedy: U.S. Senator, Attorney General, and civil rights activist, 1925-1968)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : He serves his party best who serves the country best. (Rutherford B. Hayes: U.S. politician. abolitionist, and governor of the state of Ohio who later served as the 19th president of the United States, 1822-1893)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. (Adlai Stevenson II: U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. (James Madison: Father of the U.S. Constitution and the fourth president of the United States, 1751-1836)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism. (Earl Warren: U.S. politician and jurist, who served as the Governor of California and Chief Justice of the United States, 1891-1974)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns. (Finley P. Dunne: U.S. humorist, social critic, and writer, 1867-1936)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : That’s one of my Goddam precious American rights, not to think about politics. (John Updike: U.S. novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, literary critic, and one of only three writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, 1932-2009)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : The American government gives the most help to those who need it the least—through tax breaks. (Matthew Desmond: U.S. author, sociologist, and professor at Princeton University who has received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, Born 1979/80)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : The things that have made America great are being subverted for the things that make Americans rich. (Unknown Source: )

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. (Alexis de Tocqueville: French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : There is hardly any political question in the U.S. that is not soon or later turned into a judicial question. (Alexis de Tocqueville: French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : Third (political) parties are like bees: Once they have stung, they die. (Richard Hofstadter: U.S. historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century who was the DeWitt Clinton Professor a U.S. History at Columbia University (1916-1970))

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. (Theodore Roosevelt: U.S. statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th U.S. president, 1858-1919)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : Washington D.C. is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations. (John K. Galbraith: U.S. Canadian-born economist, public official, diplomat, and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism, 1908-2006)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : We have the best congressmen that money can buy. (Joann Dearing: U.S. actress and producer)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but who is 'sitting in'—and who is marching outside the White House, pushing for change. (Howard Zinn: U.S. political science professor, author, and social activist, 1922-2010)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : What Washington needs is adult supervision. (Barack Obama: U.S. politician who served as the 44th President of the United States, the first African American to assume the presidency, Born 1961)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. (Mario Cuomo: U.S. lawyer and politician who served as the 52nd Governor of New York for three terms, Born 1932)

POLITICS (U.S.A.) : You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70, or given up all hope of the Presidency. (Wendell Phillips: U.S. attorney, abolitionist, and advocate for Native Americans, 1811-1884)