Zitat des Tages über Amerikanische Politik / American Politics:
Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.
A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?
I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.
The new rule in American politics is that no one can make it to the White House without the Hispanic vote.
The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics.
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
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.
It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.
American politics is always an open competition.
Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.
The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.
I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.
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.
In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.
My experience of American politics is that people raise issues, and they get addressed in an effective but imperfect way. But that's sort of the American system: Mind the problem and worry it, and then we attack it with overwhelming power and put it away - and that's the end of that problem.
Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.
Reagan's legacy is so powerful because he identified the state as the central issue in American politics.
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.
I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.
The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global.
There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.
I'm Canadian, and so American politics aren't really in my wheelhouse.
I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
I am firmly of the view we should keep the police out of politics in Britain, or we risk going the way of American politics, where the Whitewater investigation lasted virtually the whole of the two terms of the Clinton administration but turned up nothing.
With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.
Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.
Momentum has always counted for something, not everything, but it's always perceived as being something that matters in American politics.
'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.
Money is at the root of most that is wrong in American politics.
A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.
The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.
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.
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.