Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.

When it comes to politics, there's never a certain yes or no to any situation.

Politics has been called the “art of the possible,” and it actually is a realm akin to art insofar as, like art, it occupies a creatively mediating position between spirit and life, the idea and reality.

If Romney would go ideological in explaining Obama, it would help. We gotta stop the, 'He's a nice guy' stuff. Nice guys don't do what Obama is doing. Nice guys don't say and do and act the way Obama is saying, doing, and acting.

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

For Democrats, nothing is any less complex than a 'West Wing' episode.

I don't like to talk about politics. If you say you're a Democrat, that'll turn off Republicans, and that's half of your fan base.

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

I don't agree with everything that any of our political leaders say or believe - that's going to happen sometimes.

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

Politics are not an exact science.

In politics you have to say, compared to what?

You do not compromise with the right wing of the Republican party.

I'm not like Ann Coulter.

I'm absolutely fine with the rough and tumble of politics.

The politicians, they try to please everybody and when you want to please everybody, you won't please everybody. That's not my way of doing politics.

Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.

I'm a Democrat, but I'm really bipartisan - some people might say nonpartisan.

I can't go out with a Republican.

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.

In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship.

In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.