Friends, there is no Left in American politics.
I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance.
Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.
If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.
My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics.
Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There's just too much money.
American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.
Barack Obama has brought glamour back to American politics - not the faux glamour-by-association of campaigning with movie stars or sailing with the Kennedys, but the real thing. The candidate himself is glamorous. Audiences project onto him the personal qualities and political positions they want in a president.
American politics is always an open competition.