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People are just trying to work their jobs, raise their families, discipline their kids, and have a good life... Politics has just become like bad weather. And they deserve clear skies.

In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

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

Politics makes me sick.

I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality.

The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.

The really interesting moment will be when you have a critical mass of people engaging through the networks, more than through the press and TV. When that happens, the culture of politics has to change, moving away from controlled one-way messages towards a political culture that is more questioning.

I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller.