The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics.
And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
I think politics come out of psychology.
Politics is the art of the possible creativity is the art of the impossible.
I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.
The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
We discussed politics but we also talked about the importance of hard work personal responsibility living within your means keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.
One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.
I honestly believe that there's an element in this country in our politics that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican party and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United States of America.
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake art that stands above classes art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
You can't ignore politics no matter how much you'd like to.
When I became leader I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics.
This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud he sits upon the throne.
Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.
I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject and I almost don't understand why some people don't.
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
Everything is politics.
You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
Making films can be absolutely fantastic but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.