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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

In politics, you must let the other person have your way.

Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.

I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.

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.

Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.