On the contrary the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.

In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power unrestricted and unregulated armaments international anarchy and preparation for war.

Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game.

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.

It's very personal in its politics very bitter and very negative.

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances conjectures and conjunctions.

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once take them out of the room one at a time.

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed cheered cut sold traded and hung in effigy.

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

Would that the simple maxim that honesty is the best policy might be laid to heart that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

No one wants to hear my perspective on politics but I think honestly as you get older you get more interested in it.

People not just reporters are more interested in politics than in government so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

I don't miss politics.

I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live.

Like art and politics gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

To balance China the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy youthful population and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.

No matter where I go - London Beirut Jerusalem Washington Beijing or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better not pull them apart.

I don't feel finally that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then it's like watching preseason football.

I do not know much about politics but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.

Politics makes me sick.