Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

Anything's possible in politics.

When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle this is politics this is anything.

I don't think politics has anything to do with left right or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.