Pastoral Resources

The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered.

A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

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.

A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops.

Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because those green dollars are the hardest working dollars in the history of American politics. That same dollar that is being used to cut energy bills, is also cutting global warming gas emissions, is also cutting unemployment, is also cutting poverty, through retrofits it's also raising the value of homes, is also by cleaning the air, cutting asthma rates.

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics.

This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.

Architecture is politics.

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.