The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.
If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
In politics, it's very theatrical. There's a lot of stage craft. The campaign is trying to tell a story that they want people to believe in, and candidates are playing the role, like actors, by a creative personae that people will be attracted to.
A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
Politics doesn't matter, policy does.
Politics goes in one ear and out the other. I don't even know the president's name for sure. That's how stupid I am.
I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.
There's very little reason in politics these days.
I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me.
I don't compromise my principles for politics.
Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left.
Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.
Public employee unions are hardly the only group involved in bare-knuckles politics. Businesses lobby fiercely, and executives make hefty campaign donations.
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
Politics move, as fast as Twitter, and for everyone to think that in four years America was going to be perfect is ridiculous.
It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.
Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.
I haven't been very active in politics.
