Politics is not bean bags. It's serious tough stuff.

To rely upon conviction devotion and other excellent spiritual qualities that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Politics begin where the masses are not where there are thousands but where there are millions that is where serious politics begin.

Politics is a profession a serious complicated and in its true sense a noble one.

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie he's a bummer to have around especially as President.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent thoughtful schoolchildren.

I've been to war and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying and the consequences are serious.

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

I published privately a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies which I gave to friends in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it.

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally but reason does not relieve us of them.