Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

There is no way you can quickly say bye bye to politics, most especially if you are born into politics.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever being one.

There can be no finality in politics.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician — not even a church politician.

Nothing is unfair in politics

Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.

If you are not a good listener, you cannot be a good politician.

I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens.

There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings, some better than others, who rise or fall on the challenges they meet.

'Because it's there' could never be enough of an explanation for entering politics. ...