Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.