I always had a long-term view of going into politics so I suppose I was always careful. I mean I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.

I'm not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics.

In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

Rush Limbaugh we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican that's another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches attacks on nuns well you know what they say in politics a hit dog hollers.

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on this is the black hole of American politics.

Yes you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.

I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

I think one of the most threatening places to be in politics is a black conservative because there are so many liberals who want to continue to reinforce a stereotype that doesn't exist about America.

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

There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all who've never been in a trade union they've never been in a political party they've never done anything but they do feel a kind of urgency.

I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life or in the politics of the world around you it is wonderful to go into that studio and tell yourself what to do.

It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.

I know my limitations and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.

There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil that's probably a sign that you're losing.

I look for the humanity in people however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center there are things we can accomplish.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.

It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues which I think is good although it's not going to solve the problems.

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

When we talk about safety and security of the American people politics falls aside pretty quickly.