The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game.
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.
I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then.
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Everything is politics.
In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.
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.