In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.

A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it.

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.

Politics makes me sick.

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.