Living in Washington you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...'

For us sons of France political sentiment is a passion while for the Englishmen politics are a question of business.

Every person has only so much attention to give and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics science.

In politics madame you need two things: friends but above all an enemy.

There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was 'Well I hope so.'

Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

I was on leave from local and regional politics as long as I was a Minister.

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.

Politics swings like a pendulum.

People like passion in politics.

I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.

On the other side I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

The thing about American politics as I've learned is there is no choice.

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice heroism war politics and family struggle.

American influence in the world is certainly considerable but the United States does not control directly or indirectly the politics and economics of other societies as empires have always done save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.

So my degree was in political science which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

I mean the part you don't like I mean that's the only part. That's the part no one likes and that is the criticisms and the unfair criticisms I might add of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.