I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.
I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.
Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.
Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish – occasionally I do windows.
I was a woman in a man’s world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.
Voting is a civic sacrament.
There’s a problem with political polling in that you have so much pressure to do what your client wants you to do and say what your client wants you to say. I’ve never felt that pressure. I am independent of the political parties.
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It’s the party of non-voters.
When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
My hope is that 10 years from now, after I’ve been across the street at work for a while, they’ll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.
You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.
They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.
Everything is politics.
Politics is show business for ugly people.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left.
Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
