What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.
I think it eminently proper that a president should retire from active politics, and equally proper that he should be able to live in quiet independence.
I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.
Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
I don't like to talk about politics. If you say you're a Democrat, that'll turn off Republicans, and that's half of your fan base.
The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.
So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?
I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.
It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'
Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.
Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.
I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.
In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the games, demagogy and the marketing of politics.
I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.
It's kind of hard in politics to forget that you're a Democrat or a Republican and remember that you're a father and a grandfather... and that they're entitled to more than they're getting.
Pakistani politics is complicated, and I think it's not something a foreigner can easily assimilate and understand.
Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
