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Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country.

I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.

If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics.

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

My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.

What goes for sex goes double for politics.

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?