I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.
The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
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.
Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.
The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.
I grew up a witness to gay politics in its early days. I remember seeing Harvey Milk and been moved by him.
There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.
In politics, there's a kind of literal-mindedness. It's what you say, not what you mean, and you have to say only what you mean.
If the only people who can succeed in politics are people who go in at 25, that'd be too bad. That'd be a shame.
Conservative women in politics run a punishing gauntlet. They endure psychological evaluations and near-gynecological exams their male and liberal counterparts do not.
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.
There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles.
Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?
I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.
I'm a comedian at the beginning and the end of the day. I'm not affiliated with any campaign, nor do I generally find politics interesting enough to plan to be involved.
I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.
