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Sometimes, I read that I'm this leftwing comic who just goes on about politics the whole time. Other times, I read that it's just surreal nonsense about crisps. It's both of those.

Politics is a lot like acting. You have to be on all the time.

Politics will take care of itself. I'm interested in people who are involved in the situations that politicians create. Politics is taken care of by politicians - they're not filmmakers.

A lot of people like me who worked in Republican politics had a personal set of beliefs on issues that were at variance with the candidates that we worked for.

I think there are really serious problems in this country and I think politics in a lot of ways is failing the country.

Politics always fascinated me. In my 20s, I was involved in politics and, as I look in the mirror, not for the noblest of purposes. It was for sport.

If you hang around politics long enough, you tend to get disappointed by people.

Government buffer-stock schemes are rife with politics, and instead of generating profits from buying low and selling high, they tend to generate losses.

Through the years, through my own conversations, through my own weird obsessions, I think I have developed some very deep politics of political knowledge - and I think I have huge blind spots, too - which I have tried to build not necessarily through traditional interviews so much as it is conversations and a lot of research and reading.

Some coaches keep quiet about politics to avoid alienating boosters and other higher-ups.

American politics are rich with characters and stereotypes - Joe the Plumber, Harry and Louise, Nascar dads and hockey moms, to name a few. But one persistent type hasn't gotten much attention: the Republican football coach.

Back in August 2002, I was hired as a reporter for a website covering New Jersey politics, then still a pretty novel concept. I was 22 years old, not from the state, and thoroughly inexperienced.

The idea that Donald Trump committed an abuse of power by bringing politics into a foreign relationship is a joke. They all do it. Trump is just more open about it.

In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence.

My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.

We're so used to asking people about the news of the day and how they feel about politics, but when you ask someone about food... they're very passionate about it.

Politics is a contact sport.

The longer they talk about identity politics, I got 'em. I want them to talk about racism every day. If the Left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats.

During the Cold War, the non-aligned movement tried to become a 'third force' in world politics, but failed because it was too large and unwieldy.

When you're in politics sometimes you step on toes and they come back and kick you in the backside.

Donald Trump has fundamentally realigned American politics. It's time the media acknowledge this and give him the credit he deserves.