As I spread my wings in politics, I discovered many Thatcher voters down south who were the same kind of people who loathed her in Scotland. They were puzzled by the Scots' antipathy, given the Falklands war and the strong militaristic history of the Highlands and elsewhere.
I don't want to force my politics on my readers.
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
Adroit geo-strategists take new realities into account as they try to imagine how global politics will unfold. In the foreign policy business, however, inertia is a powerful force and 'adroit' a little-known concept.
Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.
Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.
I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports!
Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.
An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately.
I don't get involved in record label politics.
Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.
I wanted to be a journalist. I used to write articles at university about politics.
Politics is compromise.
Having grown up in a military family, I know that politics should have no role in determining who is best qualified to lead our armed forces.
Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.
I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.
Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.
In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.
I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.
Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live.
I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.
Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.
I'm a Canadian who can't vote, so far be it from me to speak for what Americans want. But, I am also a close observer of politics and media in this country, and the intersection of both - and how both intersect, and overlap with, each other.
I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
The fossil fuel industry has been a particular disgrace, polluting our politics as well as our planet.
What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.
Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.
I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.
I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.
