You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

Good politics starts with empathy proceeds to analysis then sets out values and establishes the vision before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

People feel politics isn't about their lives.

I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.

If you want to know about my politics the only way to do that is to look at my work.

America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.

I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.

There will be no politics no ifs and buts if we see something and feel that work needs to be done we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects.

I hate politics. I like to write about it but to get involved in it to try and make a lot of ignorant people do what you want them to do waste of time. Go and write a book. It's more important and it'll last longer.

In argument truth always prevails finally in politics falsehood always.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

The journey for women no matter what venue it is - politics business film - it's it's a long journey.

London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble we had severe energy problems we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously equally there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same but it's far tougher now because record companies are run by financial people before they were run by creative people.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq or any type of war.

Yeah exactly you can talk about politics in music you can talk about something else but that's always going to change and love is never going to change.

The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election.

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative too conventional. Too safe too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later too often on the back foot.

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.

Music is what I must do business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.