I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live.

I don't miss politics.

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.