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Politics means competition, especially in senior positions. If you don't know that, you're not especially suited to politics.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.

Politics is tricky for me. For most of my life, I didn't think it applied to me.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.

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