“I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.”
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“Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.”
“Politics is the science of urgencies.”
“I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.”
“There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.”
“I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.”
“It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.”
“I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do.”
“There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.”
“I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.”
“The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.”
“I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.”
“Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.”
“The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on this is the black hole of American politics.”
“Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.”
“Rush Limbaugh, we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican, that's another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches attacks on nuns, well, you know what they say in politics, a hit dog hollers.”
“In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.”
“I'm not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics.”
“I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky d--k tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.”
“I was really fascinated by politics. It always has been part of my view that politics really is a calling or you wouldn't go into it, because it's demanding and potentially has a toll on you and your family.”
“When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.”
“Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.”
“Politics makes strange bedfellows.”
“I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.”