In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.

Politics isn't about left versus right it's about top versus bottom.

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

In politics, there are no friends.

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals, and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion.

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.