Pastoral Resources

'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.

My belief is the majority of people in politics are just interested in pursuing this career in politics, and doing what's necessary to get themselves re-elected. And if that happens to coincide with the public good, great. But if it doesn't, the public good loses out.

I don't think that politics attracts the best and the brightest of America. It doesn't attract the most sincere people.

Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well.

I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Crime does not pay as well as politics.

Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.