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Politics is for people who are too ugly to get into showbusiness.

I quit politics because I hated it.

Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.

In politics I am growing indifferent - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home

I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.

I've been told to keep my remarks relatively brief. I understand Quayle-hunting season begins at noon.

That's just silly. Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish.

I probably had 150 meetings with Trent Lott. He has said exactly as many racist things to me as Bill Clinton has, which is to say zero.

One of the biggest stories in all of politics worldwide, in all of politics in this country, for decades is what's happened with the Republican Party.

I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.

I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.

A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own.

Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

The new racism is anything that might hurt a Democrat politically.

Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics.

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.

I'm enjoying turning down all requests for interviews. I don't miss being in politics.

Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.

Do I think reality TV is going to be a path to politics in a significant way? Eh, I don't know. Trump is a very specific case. It's really gonna be hard to replicate that.

I worked in the media from the late 30's through the early 70's. Politics in general became more liberal both nationally and within the state as the years passed.

You can have solid third party politics, but the problem is you're all lumped in to all the fringe groups. That's a stereotype that happens.

I have real fears for Cuba based on the South American experience. Where you have had such a stern regime, as Fidel's [Castro], there is no culture of politics.

This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.