You can study government and politics in school but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.

I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die but saying that I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years four in state government eight on the national level.

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country the supremacy of the Federal government an honorable peace or none at all.

In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult which is that the size and scope of government and really the size and scope of politics in our lives has grown uncomfortable unwieldy intrusive and inefficient.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking you would have no government.

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage and he expects your absolute loyalty.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace good people don't go into government.

When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain the politics of constant conflict may be good but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil and I believe that in the end good will triumph.