Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics.
In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.
I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration.
I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.
I have spent my whole life trying to prove that women can get into politics. I'd now say to them, 'For God's sake don't do it - you'll get slaughtered.'
We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.
In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away.
My experience of American politics is that people raise issues, and they get addressed in an effective but imperfect way. But that's sort of the American system: Mind the problem and worry it, and then we attack it with overwhelming power and put it away - and that's the end of that problem.
President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.
At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over.
I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.
If we don't change our culture, the politics is going to migrate more and more to statism.
Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.
War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.
There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.
I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.
Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game.
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends.
First, take the government of the Indians out of politics; second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites; third, give the Indian the ballot.
I think politics is extremely funny in and of itself.
Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.
Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.
The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
We can't make any statements here. We can't talk about the internal politics of Paraguay.
If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
Politics is not about power.
One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.
These new young politicians have given us the confidence to start dreaming again to believe there is a better politics, and a better future for Italy in general.
I'm quite content to spend my life helping young people find themselves. I've had my fill of politics.
The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.
I hope that one of my legacies, and I worked to pass it on, is moderation in politics.
Am I the only person covering politics who ever noticed that Newt Gingrich is actually a nincompoop?
