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Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.

The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.

Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces.

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.