Pastoral Resources

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.

What's gratifying about West Wing is that everybody told us that it couldn't be done - that the man or woman on the street didn't care about politics. But if you set things up correctly, people don't have a problem with it.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you're working for a political party, is that everyone's a messenger.

What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.

I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.

Politics is gut; commercials are gut.

Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.

I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Politics have no relation to morals.

I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

Everything is politics.