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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.

In politics, guts is all.

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Politics is a contact sport.

In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.