Every person has only so much attention to give and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics science.

In politics madame you need two things: friends but above all an enemy.

There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was 'Well I hope so.'

Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

I was on leave from local and regional politics as long as I was a Minister.

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.

Politics swings like a pendulum.

People like passion in politics.

I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.

On the other side I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

The thing about American politics as I've learned is there is no choice.

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice heroism war politics and family struggle.