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.

Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

I guess you'd call me an independent since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves no matter what the party label.

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.

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.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe and which mean very little.

I always voted at my party's call and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it but somebody always does.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Hell I never vote for anybody I always vote against.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for as for me I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

For me poetry is always a search for order.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

Poetry's always dead you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time so kids didn't know what to make of me.

One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on he decided to go into economics so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side.

Fiction will always be my greatest love with poetry close behind.