English Explanatory Dictionary

all politics is local

English dictionary entry

Meanings

proverb
  1. Ultimately, constituents and voters are concerned most about issues that affect their personal lives and home communities, and they vote accordingly.

Word forms

all politics is local all politics are local

Etymology

Variously attributed to Associated Press Washington bureau chief Byron Price, said to have first used this term in 1932, and to Chicago writer Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936). Derivative of British English professor, Dr. Samuel Johnson's 18th Century aphorism, "All virtue is local".

Related words

retail politics
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