I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

We live in a stage of politics where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

As women have played an increasingly important role in politics there is no question that they've brought a different perspective focusing attention on a broader set of issues and building alliances with other women.

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject and I almost don't understand why some people don't.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who when they succeed at it become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

All the modern verse plays they're terrible they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important.

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things which ponders listens penetrates where the earlier less developed consciousness passed lightly by is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.