I've always been very suspicious of the left-right dimension in politics.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

No, I'm not interested in politics. I have zero interest. I have interest in hope and people.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

I'm not a big politics guy.

I want to point out, there are a lot of politicians who enjoy the political end of politics, but they're not interested in governance. And then, there are some that are really interested in governance and are just terrible at politics.

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

I think politics is a reason why a lot of stuff doesn't get done. There's a lot of favors, and a lot of people are held back by their intentions of being re-elected or the things that they owe their party or constituents.

I never thought I would become an actress. I always wanted to get into politics, and I moved to Argentina and worked for the U.S. embassy for a bit. It sort of happened upon me when I was home for the holiday - acting, that is - and I stuck with it.

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

When I traveled as secretary of state, I was deluged with thick briefing books full of information about the politics, economy, and culture of each destination, so those took up most of my reading time.

American politics is always an open competition.

There are some people in politics and in the press who can't be confused by the facts. They just will not live in an evidence-based world. And that's regrettable.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?

Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.

I've been able to watch and to weather a lot of different periods in entertainment, politics and life.

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

The Democrats can engage in the most reprehensible, mean-spirited, vile, vicious verbal attacks known in politics, and they get praised for it.

I have worn a tuxedo, but I have never covered up for respectability politics or to shame other women.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

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

The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.

If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.

Politics won't allow for the truth.

The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.

The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there's been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.

Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.

People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.

Politics is the one field you don't age out of.

The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.

Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.