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.