Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world which has never been done before.

What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.

The challenge in working in politics particularly if you're working for a political party is that everyone's a messenger.

Politics is gut commercials are gut.

I was really fascinated by politics. It always has been part of my view that politics really is a calling or you wouldn't go into it because it's demanding and potentially has a toll on you and your family.

I always had a long-term view of going into politics so I suppose I was always careful. I mean I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.

I'm not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics.

In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

Rush Limbaugh we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican that's another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches attacks on nuns well you know what they say in politics a hit dog hollers.

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

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.

Yes you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.

I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

I think one of the most threatening places to be in politics is a black conservative because there are so many liberals who want to continue to reinforce a stereotype that doesn't exist about America.

I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.