The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there's been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.
There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.
Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.
I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.
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.
In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.
Conservatives really don't believe in politics as the primary instrument of getting along in life and therefore don't tend to put their energy into it a way people left of center do.
Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.
People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.