As politics is not subtraction but addition, those who share views and ideas need to join forces and they have to cooperate with political opponents even after they win an election.
There's a lot of politics in football, and sometimes the real values of the sport, those human values, get lost.
I'm always amazed how many politicians have a very unlikely story, and when I talk to groups of students, I remind them that not everybody who gets into politics is a lawyer or went to school to study it. We all come to it for different reasons.
I think you have to have really thick skin to be in politics - which I just lack. I think I'm just too nice!
I am perfectly capable of writing things about myself that one doesn't discuss in polite company, but I was raised by people who said you don't discuss politics, you don't discuss religion, and you certainly don't discuss people's sex lives.
I've always told my children that Americans will tell you pretty much anything, but that convention dictates that we don't like to talk money or politics.
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
It's a question of evidence-based politics. If you know that something does not work, you should not keep doing it.
We believe in a solid, just, compassionate, hopeful future. That's why I'm in politics. That's why I'm running for president. And that's why I'm going to win!
After all of my years in politics, I've learned that sometimes things that are said are true, and other things that are said are less than true.
In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.