This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.
When you work in the White House you talk to the White House staff all day, so you're talking to the guy who handles the congressional liaison and the guy who's handling domestic politics and the guy who's handling the American economy and so forth.
The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.
The best thing about writing speculative fiction is the opportunity to satirize the whole wide world. The America in 'A Better World' isn't ours, but it's pretty close, so I could lampoon everything from partisan politics to the cult of celebrity to our general disaffection. To me, all that is the point.
Politics is a contact sport.
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.
Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be 'old-time gospel preaching.' This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states.
Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.
There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.
The style of politics that Damian McBride represents has been discredited, and Labour has moved on.
I'm sure my desire to perform came, in part, from being around politics as a kid. My dad had a big personality, and a lot of the people involved in Boston politics have big personalities, so there were all kinds of wacky people around.
I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability.
According to the people who dearly would love to throw him out of office, Barack Obama was elected to be 'above politics.' He wasn't elected to be president, after all. He was elected as an avatar of American tolerance. His attempts to get himself reelected imply a certain, well, ingratitude.
I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
But the - look, I think that this - the United States of America is still the most powerful economy in the world. It is an incredible engine for creativity and innovation. And it has the most - smartest, most effective workforce in the world. So we have a lot going for us, in spite of the fractiousness of our politics.
People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live.
What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.
I will continue my involvement in politics through Lord Ashcroft Polls and my political publishing interests: Conservative Home, Biteback Publishing and Dods.
One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.
Steve Jobs would have wanted his words to change not just technology but politics itself.
If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.
Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.
My family was entirely political, all the time, on the left. The opposite of that is not to be political on the right. It's trying not to be - politics is not everything. There's life other than politics. Politics intrudes.
The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.
The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.
I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.
As a nation, it's time to put politics aside and do the right thing to protect innocent little babies.
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.
