Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
Jesus is the politics of the new age; He is about the establishment of a kingdom; He is the one who has created a new time that gives us the time not only to care for the poor but to be poor. Jesus is the one who makes it possible to be nonviolent in a violent world.
These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.
The right-wingness of Fox is basically the news channel. I don't think the broadcast network has any politics at all. It's sub-political at best.
If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved.
As a scientist, the starting point is always the facts of the matter, whereas often, in politics, the starting point is how does this play in the next election.
My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.
Mitt Romney is a nice guy. But, we know where nice guys finish in politics.
The thing that drives people more often than not is they genuinely feel that they can make a difference. So that means there are nice people in politics.
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
In politics, there are no friends.
There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.
It's a no-win situation with politics; it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I've just decided to be non-political and very, very pro-soldier.
Non-violent protests have reached a plateau. There is no other way but to get into politics to make your voice heard.
America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
