Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.

I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course something wrong with some politicians.

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings but we'll work late and be honest.

World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

Politicians like generals have a tendency to fight the last war.

The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians bureaucrats policemen and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism we can't control them.

We need to decide that we will not go to war whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media because war in our time is always indiscriminate a war against innocents a war against children.

The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.