101.   A redeeming truth of convention politics is that there can be more candor over a good meal than there is in the carefully managed photo opportunity of grinning aspirants.

102.   A wise man once said that all politics is local and for the most part that goes for sports, too.

103.   A year ago, when Dr. Rita Colwell was sworn in as the director of the National Science Foundation, new ground in science and politics was broken.

104.   Abortion politics can be tricky.

105.   According to Aristotle, politics is an art whose dignity is second only to poetry.

106.   Abortion is something Cochran feels he cannot be silent on, but presidential politics is different.

107.   Actually, politics is both and no one knows that better than former Mayor Rendell, who worked closely with Republican Gov. Tom Ridge to win the convention.

108.   After all, as divisive as Israeli politics is, the last political assassination took place before the founding of the state.

109.   After all, politics is entertainment.

110.   All politics are about the struggle for primacy among competing social and economic interests.