Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress.
One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of civil society, I will write an essay. The responsibilities you feel as a novelist are literary ones, I think, not civic ones. And I think politi...
To me, politics is a pile of tricks.
Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms.
Politics is the science of urgencies.
I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
Gossip is easy, politics is hard.
So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.
I think one of the most threatening places to be in politics is a black conservative because there are so many liberals who want to continue to reinforce a stereotype that doesn't exist about America.
In the period before the arrival of Mrs. Thatcher, politics had been in such low esteem. Everything was so hedged, so mealy-mouthed. Then along came this woman who seemed to have no manners at all and said exactly what she thought. Everyone's eyes we...
Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.
When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.
Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.
To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.
I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.
