Tonight, I concurred with President Bush when he stated that the decisions on future involvement of U.S. troops in Iraq should be left to the Pentagon and not politicians in Washington.
I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.
There's this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldn't be interested. That includes movie stars and politicians.
The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.
Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state.
I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.
Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.
Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.
Politicians and others are stuck in a horrible world where being emotional in any way counts as being unbalanced, and unable to think clearly. For me, emotions are thought.
I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.
I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.
It is not our politicians who will lead the change. The only person who can change our politics is the engaged citizen.
Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.
'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.
In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.
I don't trust politicians. I think that by the time they've made it, with the concessions they've had to make in that position, I don't believe they still have the beliefs they had at the root.
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.
