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The Yale Book of Quotations
Edited by Fred R. Shapiro
New Haven, CT; Yale University Press
2006
Pg. 566:
homas P. “Tip” O’Neill, Jr.
U.S. politician, 1912-1994
“All politics is local.”
Quoted in Wall STreet Journal, 6 Dec. 1976. Although this line is associated with O’Neill, it appeared much earlier, such as in the Frederick (Md.) News, 1 July 1932.

Boston College - John J. Burns Library
Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr. Papers
Biographical Note
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In 1935 O’Neill entered political life with his first campaign, trying for a seat on the Cambridge City Council as a Senior at Boston College. This was his first and only loss. This was the campaign in which O’Neill learned that “People like to be asked” and “All politics is local.” In November of the next year, 1936, after graduating from Boston College, he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, the first of 25 consecutive elections spanning 50 years of public service. The Great Depression had hurt his constituents and O’Neill became a strong advocate of New Deal liberalism.

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Politics Is Your Business
By William Henry Baumer and Donald G. Herzberg
New York, NY:  Dial Press
1960
Pg. 116:
The underlying principle of the Chamber workshop is a belief that politics is organized group action and that politics is local.

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24 December 1973, New York magazine, “The Man Who Could Push Richard Nixon Over the Edge” by Martin F. Nolan, pg. 42, col. 3:
Although O’Neill subscribes to the adage that all politics is local, he doesn’t worry about being overshadowed by a fellow Bay Stater.

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A History of Iowa
By Leland Livingston Sage
Published by The Iowa State University Press
1974
Pg. 318:
But, as it was observed many years ago, all politics is local politics, and, it might be added, personal politics.

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All politics is local, and other rules of the game
By Tip O’Neill with Gary Hymel
New York, NY: Times Books
1994
Pg. ?:
“All politics is local” is probably the lesson most assoicated with me. Actually, my father first told it to me and it helped me greatly along along the line. I can’t tell you how many people come up to me and repeat it, giving me the credit.