For us sons of France political sentiment is a passion while for the Englishmen politics are a question of business.

Every person has only so much attention to give and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics science.

In politics madame you need two things: friends but above all an enemy.

There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was 'Well I hope so.'

Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

I was on leave from local and regional politics as long as I was a Minister.

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.