As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.
My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.
The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.
How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?
My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico.
Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.
I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinking and convictions are in accord with their own political convictions.
The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.
But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
Partisan rancour and party politics and ideology have got in the way of compromise - and compromise is the only thing that has ever made politics successful.
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.
I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.
I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.
And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
