It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics.

A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey there are votes in this!

Like Indiana Jones I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.

Politics thrives on simple clean messages something that played to Obama's advantage in 2008. Stagnant unemployment and the loss of America's AAA rating are as simple and tough as they come. This is the economy on Obama's watch and there's no one left to blame.

The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is one of the great mysteries of politics.

I understand the process of politics and the game of television.

I don't want to express my opinion about actual politics because if I do I have to be responsible for my decision.

I cry sometimes because I'm not 20 years younger and I'm not healthy. But if I were I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.

You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much to be blunt.

I was looking for something like baseball where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

First of all I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

The more that I know of politics the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics not science is behind the FDA's actions.

I... grew up in politics and I used to work for the Democratic Party.

George Clooney's 'Ides of March' could be the most under-appreciated movie of the year. In 20 years they're gonna go back and say 'Oh that was American politics in that time period.' I follow politics I love it and that movie is so authentic.

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics it is everything.