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Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.

I think the American people have been surprised by the enthusiasm with which the Iraqis have taken to elections and politics.

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics.

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Hope springs eternal, even in politics.

Yeah, exactly, you can talk about politics in music, you can talk about something else, but that's always going to change, and love is never going to change.

I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.

It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

The best politics is no politics.

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.