As a young woman in politics, with few women around, you start to subconsciously behave like men in politics. That comes across as quite hard, tough and humorless, but you're trying to be taken seriously.
I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.
Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.
There's something to be said for CEOs' entering politics: In theory, they have management expertise and financial savvy. Then again, it didn't work so well with Dick Cheney.
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more.
It's a sad commentary on where politics is today. If someone disagrees with you, you're either Attila the Hun or a leftist liberal.
The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved.
I don't do politics. I just like to laugh.
When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.
Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.
Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that.
Refusing to lift sanctions and adopting tougher rhetoric toward Iran would not be partisan issues. Plenty of Democrats think that those actions are both good politics and good policy.
My three years in politics was very instructive about the way in which the appetite for political power can destroy a human mind, destroy principles and values, and transform people into little monsters.
In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.
The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
I think what I would really most like to write about is palm trees and bougainvillea and hummingbirds. I would like to go into the desert and write about salamanders and the Grand Canyon, but history keeps rupturing my experience because politics are everywhere.
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.
There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.
Even before the missteps that I've had, I was never going to run for office. My family is adamantly opposed to it, and frankly, my politics don't necessarily work for the primaries of either of our parties.
In politics, guts is all.
For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton.
We have this idea in our minds that there's this separation of church and state in America, which I think is a good thing. And we extend that to our politics - not just church and state, but it's also there's a separation of religion and politics. But of course there isn't.
I never let my politics supersede my manners.
Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.
It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money.
You know what? As a black person, you see so much racism. Films are no different than the government, politics - it's everywhere. It's not exclusively film. It's infuriating to see it in film. But my being in film changes things.
Just as a balloon filled gradually with air bursts when the limit of its tensile strength is passed, there are thresholds of radical, disruptive change in politics. When those thresholds are crossed, the impossible suddenly becomes probable, with revolutionary implications for governments and nations.
We used to play marbles for keeps. If you lost, you lost. It is the same way with politics, but not everybody knows this.
I'm Canadian, and so American politics aren't really in my wheelhouse.
Now interpersonal politics... that's what it's all about.
