Attention Quote by Pete Buttigieg

Sometimes, I think people just want a distraction. It's something you can get excited about that doesn't have to do with politics. It makes…

— Sara Seager

I kinda halfway paid attention to politics during my early years, but the older you get, the more you realize it's very important to…

— Ray Stevens

To cover politics in Washington allows you to live in the very, very wide gap between what the actual truth is, and how people…

— Mark Leibovich

So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government, the remorseless…

— Tony Blair

Wall-to-wall coverage of the political intrigue in Washington focuses on which Capitol Hill players won the daily news cycle, with barely any reference to…

— Pete Buttigieg

Having been born and raised in Washington, D.C., you kind of absorb politics when you grow up. And it continues to be a focus…

— Jeffrey Wright

What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that practically I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all.

— Henry David Thoreau

I've become very interested in the spectrum of political discourse as seen on the cable news channels that are conveniently right in a row…

— Chris Carter

Whenever anybody gets involved in politics, its always exciting for me because we take for granted our freedoms and our abilities to effect change…

— Emily Saliers

We in politics are accustomed to seeing reality firsthand and then watching its distant cousin, events as portrayed by the media, unfold on our…

— Dick Morris

I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

— Pat Oliphant

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more…

— David Brooks