“Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.”
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“I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.”
“Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.”
“I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.”
“I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.”
“The essential ingredient of politics is timing.”
“I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.”
“I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.”
“I am interested in politics.”
“There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.”
“The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue.”
“In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.”
“Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.”
“American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.”
“Does politics have to be injected into everything?”
“Gossip is easy, politics is hard.”
“This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.”
“Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.”
“The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics.”
“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.'”
“The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.”
“I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition.”
“I don't want to force my politics on my readers.”
“I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.”