My father (Riles Johnson) was active in politics, and brought me into it when I was 8 years old,

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

Tip O'Neill said all politics is local.

They knew people so well. They communicated so well. They understood politics, especially patronage politics.

We agree that there is politics at play. It was politics that caused the DOR to retract a report that agreed with the inspector general's position on the issue and replace it with a weaker report co-authored by the very agency that the DOR was supposed to investigate.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.