A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.

Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect.

I am interested in politics.

I don't think you should go into politics until you can stand on your own two feet economically, if possible, and you know enough about the world.

We're very good at talking about the individual in American politics and excellent at talking about the government. But we have little ability to even acknowledge everything that exists in the middle, and given how influential politics is on every other part of our life, I think that failure of discourse is pretty corrosive to our overall culture.

If you want to get things done in life, you don't go into politics. If you want to get things done in life you go into communications. Absolutely certain.

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

Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.

In politics you learn to always smile.

I didn't have any personal goals when I came, but after being in politics - after seeing people, their difficulties, their wants - I think our goal has to be to eliminate poverty from India.

To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.

I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.

The country needs a leader like Modi. He should come to the national level politics.

Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.

Just because I am paying attention to politics and culture doesn't mean that I should be talking about the health-care bill, talking about the minutiae.

I don't care what you do - baseball or politics - George W. Bush is always going to be compared to his father. I just want it to be an easy answer in 50 years - Who was the better player, me, or my kids? I want it to be my kids.