I tend to avoid televisions politics and places with velvet ropes.
Where there is politics or economics there is no morality.
I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.
The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you you can't give up politics it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.
I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.
In politics every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
Politics is human beings it's addition rather than subtraction.
First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run you may lose. And if you tie you do not win.
I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.
It's really very simple Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.
I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed than for those who deny the whole of it.
One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.