People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.
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.
As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion I believe that this view is seriously flawed.
Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously equally there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.
It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.
In politics every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing economics politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Politics is not bean bags. It's serious tough stuff.
To rely upon conviction devotion and other excellent spiritual qualities that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
Politics begin where the masses are not where there are thousands but where there are millions that is where serious politics begin.
Politics is a profession a serious complicated and in its true sense a noble one.
The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie he's a bummer to have around especially as President.
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent thoughtful schoolchildren.
I've been to war and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying and the consequences are serious.
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
I published privately a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies which I gave to friends in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it.
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally but reason does not relieve us of them.
There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.
No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.
If there will be a serious Palestinian prime minister who makes a 100 percent effort to end terrorism then we can have peace. Each side has to take steps. If terror continues there will not be an independent Palestinian state. Israel will not accept it if terror continues.
In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace.
If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.
A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.