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Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee.

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.

I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.

Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?

I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.

It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.