I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics.
The tax code is becoming steadily more progressive, which shouldn't surprise anyone who understands power politics. It's always easier to force sacrifice on an unpopular minority than it is to ask the majority to pony up.
As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.
I am very close to my family, and there's something life-affirming about that. Even if you feel completely different from them and have totally different views on politics and ethics, you're still family and have that immediate acceptance.
I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are completely unfazed by it.
I was born in the Coolidge administration. Can you believe that? So I've seen a lot of politics.
I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
But very often in politics we have the experience called up from my father when someone was trying to help him in the campaign: I can take care of my enemies, may the Good Lord save me from my friends.
Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.
Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.
Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.
There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.
I'm very literate on policy. I'm very literate on the issues, and I'm an American first. I've been involved in politics long before I was an actress. I just happen to have a platform now. I just happen to have a voice.
In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.
To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
When I moved to Beijing in 2005 to write, I was accustomed to hearing the story of China's transformation told in vast, sweeping strokes - involving one fifth of humanity and great pivots of politics and economics.
The war for the Internet has begun. Hollywood is in control of politics. The government is killing innovation.
You help me, I'll help you. That's politics.
My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.
Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.
Those at the top would do better with a smaller share of a booming economy that elicits a positive politics than they will do with an ever-larger share of an anemic economy that fuels the politics of anger.
Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.
Forget the consultants, the pundits and the pollsters; good policy is good politics.
Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
I've entered politics the moment I marked my finger with the electoral voting mark. So I've entered politics, but I am not a politician. I am doing my duty as a citizen of India.
Politics is the art of the possible.
In politics, you've got to have a fallback in our line of work because your career can be over in an instant. Not that I would make much money playing a harmonica.
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
Politics is applied biology.
The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global.
Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.
I am the candidate who defends the superiority of politics over the administration, the bureaucracy, the economy, and so I think it is politics which must decide.
