Pastoral Resources

In Pakistan politics is hereditary.

But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics.

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.