You help me I'll help you. That's politics.

As I've gotten older I've gotten more liberal and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents I practically fell out of my chair.

I've done business with people I've met in politics who I went to law school with who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life.

There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.

I think that what I'm doing is right. And election-year politics which intensifies everything is not going to drive me off that course.

All politics is local.

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.