Why can't we give the American people a break and separate humor from politics?

The Republican National Convention is a great place to hear people talk about politics and values and all that sort of thing. But there's one thing brings me back year after year, and that's white people dancing. The RNC is the world's premier Caucasian amateur dance festival.

While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

I can't be bought. I don't need to be bought. I'm not a careerist. I don't need to have a career in politics. I'm in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength.

I am joining politics for sure.

Unfortunately, Bruce Rauner is more committed to playing politics than fighting for Illinois women and families.

I remember when I was younger, older folks would say to me, 'There are three things you don't talk about at a dinner party: religion, politics, and money.' But I think the truth is quite the opposite.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

We are in the midst of an exciting canvass... I am working very hard in politics as well as in other matters. We are determined that Mississippi shall be settled on a basis of justice and political and legal equality.

A president from a partner nation should not make comments on Italian politics.

The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist.

Those actors who took to politics are those who were not doing well in films.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

Politics changes lives. You would expect me, as a politician, to say that. But I don't say it as a politician: I say it as someone whose own life was changed.

Kasich does two fundamentals in presidential politics wrong; he talks, and he keeps talking.

Religion and politics hit nerves. There's a lot of anger about a lot of things. It's not easily resolved. I guess that's what wars are about. Wars are about prejudice and fear. Hit first before you get hit. Believe me, I know.

I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.