Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.

What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.

Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.