Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.