First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run you may lose. And if you tie you do not win.

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

It's really very simple Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed than for those who deny the whole of it.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as president.

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get there's always a part of me that's sitting there.