The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
You never know what'll happen in politics.
I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right ...
I didn't used to think about politics much, or social issues. I was a teenager, writing about girls.
A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
I'm always amazed how many politicians have a very unlikely story, and when I talk to groups of students, I remind them that not everybody who gets into politics is a lawyer or went to school to study it. We all come to it for different reasons.
Certainly, my advice is that communicating, lobbying, fundraising and engaging the public in policy and politics is far more exciting and inexpensive via the Internet. Old guard organizations like Common Cause had to evolve to embrace this new enviro...
I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.
I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.
I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.
So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.
Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.
In politics, all candidates and volunteers are ambassadors to voters who expect better than parroting the politics of personal destruction. Being able to find common ground at the higher ground is what separates the stateswoman from the stuntwoman.
Ted Kennedy's inspiration will loom large over our politics for years to come, uplift us in the healthcare fight, and help to achieve his dream of liberty and justice for all.
Conservatives and companies condoned Rush Limbaugh's politics of personal destruction when it came to smearing elected officials. 'Fair game,' they said, even when crass and crude. That's just the way it is.
A generation of Earth Days has conditioned millions of us to be green in our homes yet we must apply the same ethic to our politics if we want to save our planet and our democracy.
The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.
In politics, you must let the other person have your way.
In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.
I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.