Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.
I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.
There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.
American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.
With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.
It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.
Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.
Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.
A polite devil is more agreeable than a rude saint.
All I do is party.
The King! I thought him enough of a philosopher to realize that there is no such thing as murder in politics. You know as well as I do, my dear boy, that in politics there are no people, only ideas; no feelings, only interests. In politics, you don't...
I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, l...
I am not a Federalist,” he declared in 1789, “because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever.… If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
Going into the Republican Party National Convention, in all objective truth, our non‑winning front‑runners are the sorriest collection of stuffed shirts, empty suits, self‑gratulatory ignorami, and outright wig‑flipped ding‑dongs in the his...
The very act of accepting her position at Mademoiselle was an act of open defiance against Dick Norton, his entire family, and the gendered expectations of midcentury America.
New York is unruly, tangled. The city woos first, then mangles, then pastes back together in a fresh, dazzling mosaic.
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based on them. I once had a character say that she never wanted to be invited to another children's birthday party, and I ...
