Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I’ve allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
I’m so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.
And I’m not apolitical – I’m very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it’s nobody’s business unless you’re over at my house having dinner.
The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.
I’ve learned what Tip O’Neill meant when he said all politics is local. We need more people in Congress who have this experience, who have this boots-on-the-ground experience.
The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.
I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.
Politics is about the art of the possible.
I listened to Bill Bennett and tons of other talk show hosts who talked about that and other policies and started branching out and caring about other issues in regards to politics.
If you wanted to hear politics, you’d go to Henry Kissinger; you wouldn’t go to hear Jackie Mason. The reason I speak about politics is because I know I can get a laugh out of it.
Politics is a thing that is kind of the same over and over and over again. But we have to find new ways of poking fun at it and letting the air out of people and satirizing things that are worthy of satire.
There’s politics in all aspects of our daily lives.
Politics is not an exact science.
In so much of politics you’re not allowed to disagree with what’s been agreed.
You should never ask actors about politics.
Anybody who doesn’t know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.
When I say I don’t get involved in politics, I merely mean that I don’t talk to reporters about it.
No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.
If I cry, it’s about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics – no, I don’t cry.
I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from ‘Mad Magazine.’ But all other comic books literally gave me a headache.
It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.
Our number one agenda is to get money out of politics, to drain the swamp, but not in the way that Trump said. He stacked his cabinet full of Goldman Sachs guys.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
