I'm a wise Latina woman. Whatever, man. Thank God I'm not in politics, because the fact that you have to explain everything - I'd kill myself. I can't take all those little things they dissect. I'm like, 'Oh my God, get a life.' I don't have time for this.

I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.

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.

I haven't been very active in politics.

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.

The protest years were over, not just for me but for a whole generation, and in music, just like in politics, many of the greatest talents were dead or in exile, and their place was filled by third-rate imitators.

I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president.

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

I don't even know what the issues are. I haven't paid attention to politics in a long time. It's actually not something that I really even enjoy. It's way off my radar.

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Politics is the art of the next best.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

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

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

We are still living with a double standard. I know it. Every woman I know knows it, whether you're in the media as a woman, or you're in the professions or business or politics.

I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

In the period before the arrival of Mrs. Thatcher, politics had been in such low esteem. Everything was so hedged, so mealy-mouthed. Then along came this woman who seemed to have no manners at all and said exactly what she thought. Everyone's eyes were popping and their jaws were dropping, and I really enjoyed that.

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

The longer they talk about identity politics, I got 'em. I want them to talk about racism every day. If the Left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats.

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

Forget politics and what their platforms were and everything, because you can take whoever you want to take, but the guy that I liked was Nixon... He was a smart man.

Whatever understanding is reached with Pakistan has to be followed honestly, and everybody will have to rise above party politics and be actively committed to make India prosperous.

The fact is that politics in Illinois is a blood sport. It's really rough. It's really nasty.

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

Conservatives really don't believe in politics as the primary instrument of getting along in life and therefore don't tend to put their energy into it a way people left of center do.

Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time.

I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy.

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.

I went into politics on an emotional level and soon realised that emotion has nothing to do with politics.

The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.

Everything in politics is politically motivated, didn't you know?

I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

That's politics. After six o'clock, we can be friends, but before six, it's politics.