Thomas Frank Quotes

Some Democrats deserve to be criticized.

Hyperbole has been part of elections since the days of John Adams, and there's nobody better than Joe Biden to give us a little hyperbole, as we all know.

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.

Politicians always criticize each other in different ways.

I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric.

When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.

Bunkum Darlington, who sat close to Walker in the House changed the spelling and gave it its generalized meaning of political rhetoric for the folks back home.]

I underestimated in this town, the degree to which politics trumps problem solving.

No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them -- campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again.

When I hear things like 'unpatriotic,' I just chalk it up to a lot of political rhetoric.

Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.

Congress is a place that lacks any debate of ideas.

Politicians can talk and talk and talk until they're silly, and they do nothing.

We voted for Obama on rhetoric of 'hope and change.' We voted for him because of some idea that he was beyond politics and certainly beyond partisanship.

I hate to rain on anyone's parade or burst the enthusiasm bubble, but talk is especially cheap during an election season.

Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless.

When you run ads saying you are going to save social security, my friend, that's all hat and no cattle.

This is what Newt Gingrich has wrought - is a politics in which it's very easy to destroy and very hard to build.

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.

It's so easy to trigger everyone these days, especially if you mention President Donald Trump.

I've been standing up against what I call the 'virtue signalling' from Justin Trudeau which actually ignores the real challenges of the day and offers symbolic gestures as a substitute.

You know how it is: when you politicize things, it is not the best ingredient to get things done.

Every time you work on a political campaign, half the people hate you. That's how it is.

It is not enough for us to merely continue to talk about and contribute to the echo chamber of white noise of what's wrong with America or for candidates to spout off silly poll-tested talking points about national security or foreign policy.