David Brinkley Quotes

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

The American people want to pay attention to serious ideas again. Our founding was built by people who were political philosophers, and we need to get back to that, away from this kind of cheap political rhetoric of Right and Left.

I've been interested in American politics since I was eight. That was in 1968. It was an interesting year. I was a huge Eugene McCarthy supporter, so I guess he was the first senator I really knew about and cared about.

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

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

People are very sophisticated in their concerns about various parties, in their hopes for what the next government could look like. And I'm not going to prejudge any possible outcomes.

When I talk to people outside the beltway, I don't think people are that divided.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

There are too many political moderates in America.

There was a time when liberals were linguistically dominant in America.

[Politics in America is:] A chess tournament disguised as a circus.

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

We are becoming too much of a gaff-centric political culture.

Our American elections have been fought between parties which, roughly, have represented the forces advocating change and those preferring stability.

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

American politics is always an open competition.

There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.

2010 is not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats. 2010 is not just a choice between liberals and conservatives. 2010 is a referendum on the very identity of our nation.

If Donald Trump's candidacy has proven anything, it's that the media has no idea what Americans care about.

This is the extreme left's problem in both television and in politics. Whether it be lousy ratings on TV or getting votes, if you don't listen to and understand Americans, you'll pay the price at the ballot box.

Federalists, Whigs, Democratic-Republicans; parties are born, parties die, and parties realign themselves to adapt to shifting demographics and attitudes.

I am better at politics than I am at anything else.

The Conservative Party tries to avoid important but controversial issues of concern to Conservatives and Canadians in general. It is afraid to articulate any coherent philosophy to support its positions.