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We live now in a world where any insult is treated like being shot at by a .38 at four feet.
— Kris Saknussemm
There hasn't been a scandal this big at the C.I.A. since (CLASSIFIED) committed (CENSORED) to (REDACTED).
— Stephen Colbert
You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.
— Johnny Isakson
The only way to Cuba is with the CIA.
— Phil Ochs
I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.
— Glenn Greenwald
Relationships are so much like the United States - they only really thrive when faced with an external threat.
— Laura Pedersen
We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people ...
— T. Rafael Cimino
It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate.
— Stephen Colbert
The United States has never done away with slavery; we just stopped calling it such. These days, we call it free-market capitalism.
— Michel Templet
As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing
— Glenn Greenwald
Social security isn't a ponzi scheme. It's not bankrupting us. It's not an outrage. It is working.
— Rachel Maddow
On almost all issues, citizens could not identify the stands of the candidates
as intended. — Noam Chomsky
as intended. — Noam Chomsky
It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.
— Glenn Greenwald
Behind tranquillity lies conquered unhappiness.
— J. William T. Youngs
Voting for the Green Party is how you say 'Up Yours!' to the Republicans and Democrats.
— Steven Magee
A number I'd love to know: the % of those now saying 'we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran' who will support one if Obama does it.
— Glenn Greenwald
The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.
— Noam Chomsky
The United Staes had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred,
— Samantha Power
Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that.
— Tiffany Madison
This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars - they would think the country has gone insane.
— Noam Chomsky
We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for what's not quite right is quite wrong.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
all right we are two nations
— John Dos Passos
The United States abd usually be reiled on to do the right thing, but only after they have tried all the other alternatives.
— Winston Churchill
As for the politicians, like everyone else in America, they were motivated by money, not ideals.
— Charles Dickens
Gov. Christie says 'New Jersey First.' State-based Isolationism!
— Jonah Goldberg
For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.
— Glenn Greenwald
When they ask me to become president of the United States I'm going to say, Except for Washington D.C.
— Len Deighton
I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.
— Jonah Goldberg
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
— William McKinley
The freedom to bear arms may be righteously rejected to encourage the preservation of all corporeal forms of life.
— Kevin Alan Lee
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.
— Jonah Goldberg
My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when it's gonna start working again.
— Stephen Colbert
What I could not support was "a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics".
— Barack Obama
But we forget that government was also created to act and make decisions.
— Francis Fukuyama
The rise of Donald Trump is what happens when you build Potemkin villages in Weimar republics.
— Dean Cavanagh
Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it's taking to VOTE.
— Stephen Colbert
Because of racism, he can't govern effectively' is not a great argument for re-election.
— James Taranto
Our democracy should aspire to be more democratic.
— DaShanne Stokes
Politics and religion in the United States work like the twin grips of a pair of pliers on a critical mass of the masses.
— Roseanne Barr
The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them.
— Christopher Hitchens
Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word nuclear.
— T. Rafael Cimino
Jules turned to her, incredulous. 'Do you socialize with Republicans?'
'It happens, Jules. — Jennifer Egan
'It happens, Jules. — Jennifer Egan
Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.
— Dennis Kucinich
It has been estimated that 80 percent of the oil illegally smuggled out of Iraq under oil for food ended up in the United States.
— Scott Ritter
You can tell there's an election coming soon. People are already using the word "fundamentally" in excess.
— Benjamin Kane Ethridge
I don't believe in the Constitution because I'm American, I'm American because I believe in the Constitution.
— J.S.B. Morse
The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate.
— Winston Churchill
I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot.
— Christopher Hitchens
American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.
— Glenn Greenwald
There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
— Barack Obama
[Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.
— Paul Bremer
In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty .
— Umberto Eco
Why is the United States behaving so arrogantly? All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil.
— Nelson Mandela
With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.
— Arnold Beichman
All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent.
— Thomas Piketty
Shamelessness is not the same as honesty.
— James Poniewozik
Forgot to live-tweet the election last night, so I'm post-tweeting today. I'll start as soon as my fingers unclench from their rage fists.
— Stephen Colbert
It is really about 'right versus wrong.
— Anonymous
With each passing day, I become more and more convinced that the greatest threat to American freedom is the United States government.
— Michel Templet
I will say that I think Israel enjoys strong bipartisan support in the United States. It's really above and beyond American politics.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
A large segment of the public willingly resigns itself to political passivity in a world in which it cannot expect to make well-founded judgments.
— Richard Hofstadter
Don't write in to ask whether I would prefer Gingrich to Clinton. Ask, rather, whether Clinton prefers Gingrich to you. Go triangulate yourself.
— Christopher Hitchens
It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.
— Noam Chomsky