"I got a job with a law firm in Portland after a couple of years with Senator Muskie. But by then, my interest in politics had been sparked, through meeting Senator Muskie, through seeing what he did"

"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way"

"Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first"

"You do the policy, I'll do the politics"

"In politics, an organized minority is a political majority"

"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians"

"Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth"

"Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you"

"Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one"

"It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life"

"Everything is politics"