Well for me the pro-life issue has been something I've been very passionate about since the '70s and I have been very involved in the pro-life community since long before politics.

Arkansas is a state where politics is retail.

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.

I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'

I hate injustice and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.

My college Fitzwilliam was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.

On the contrary the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.

In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power unrestricted and unregulated armaments international anarchy and preparation for war.

Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game.

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.

It's very personal in its politics very bitter and very negative.

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

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once take them out of the room one at a time.

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed cheered cut sold traded and hung in effigy.

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

Would that the simple maxim that honesty is the best policy might be laid to heart that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

No one wants to hear my perspective on politics but I think honestly as you get older you get more interested in it.

People not just reporters are more interested in politics than in government so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.