"But I don't think politics should dictate personal choices."

And when the administration does spend money protecting possible terrorist targets, politics, not national security, dictates where the money goes.

The promise will be abandoned the minute domestic politics dictate otherwise.

They were men of different parties, but they would have reacted the same way to a prison director who let politics dictate his actions.

He is equally critical of those who let domestic politics dictate foreign policy.

The politics of the day have also dictated caution.

Publicly, major donors have long insisted that politics should not dictate emergency relief decisions.

If the issue is to be buried, politics dictates burying it as soon as possible.

That American politics dictates his conduct of foreign policy.

Local politics and the shorter distance to Straits likely dictated the final location of the bridge.