Idealism is the despot of thought just as politics is the despot of will.

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate consultant pundit and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

Pennsylvania is a very tough state people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.

My mother Lillie Specter was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.

What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.

In politics yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Telling the truth and confronting the challenge is what politics is about.

With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.

War is not an independent phenomenon but the continuation of politics by different means.