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.

African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.

And yet there are still people in American politics who for some reason cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.

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?

The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.

As a black woman my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

First I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals.

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

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.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

Confronted with the choice the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

The largest party in America by the way is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century all natural disasters and all automobile accidents combined.

America's present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but restoration.

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be for the world an example of a genuinely free democratic just and humane society.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically by definition be disqualified from ever doing so.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections they want observers.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose but that it has turned to advertising copy.

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate or just never come back I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much and so I just went.

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies but it's clear that in America poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.