“In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.”
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“I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.”
“Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.”
“I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.”
“War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.”
“With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.”
“Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.”
“In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.”
“My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.”
“Pennsylvania is a very tough state people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.”
“The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.”
“The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.”
“Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.”
“Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
“Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.”
“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.”
“Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
“Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
“Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.”
“I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.”
“Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.”
“We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned.”
“In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.”
“I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.”