I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, 'We like him, and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level.

I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth.

For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them.

One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller.

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.