This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud he sits upon the throne.

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject and I almost don't understand why some people don't.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.

Everything is politics.

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Politics is organized hatred that is unity.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

In politics women type the letters lick the stamps distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.

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.

You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because unless we do all of these things it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.

Anything's possible in politics.

I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics but kind of civic engagement and that kind of thing except I tended to think 'Well do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

I never thought of politics as a profession.

Politics disgusts me.

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.