“I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty it fights dirty.”
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“I like politics. I like traveling in the United States.”
“Politics is a people business. I like people.”
“I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.”
“The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.”
“So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.”
“American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.”
“We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.”
“The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.”
“Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.”
“On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.”
“I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.”
“People like passion in politics.”
“Politics swings like a pendulum.”
“I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.”
“My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.”
“I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.”
“In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.”
“Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.”
“Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.”
“There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was, 'Well, I hope so.'”
“In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.”
“Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.”
“Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.”