I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves.
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
If you're in the game long enough, you're going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you'll be toast.
When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.
The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.
Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.
I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics.
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.
Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.
There is a real and evident problem of democracy in Georgia, and this was the core reason of my entrance into politics. We have no rule of law. It's absolutely absent.
Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.
I didn't come into politics to have to deal with the issue of clandestine entry, illegal working, or an asylum system that allows a free run for right-wing bigots.
Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics.
Possibly the fact that I was physically quite feeble, a relatively short little fellow, attracted me to that idea of a very authoritative and aggressive version of Conservative politics.
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
Part of the problem in politics is that people only look at the next four to eight years: kick the can down the road and say, 'Hey, it's the next person's problem.'
