My own early crusade for same-sex marriage for example is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Well I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal not what is illegal.

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle progress without compassion wealth without work learning without silence religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

In terms of the principles of politics I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership who has the management skills to help the country.

Divorced from ethics leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive strong and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch the antithesis of leadership.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

All along we find that social life - religion politics art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Political correctness? In my humor I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.

Hope springs eternal even in politics.

What I hope is in five years' time I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked but it has worked.

Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do politics is what we create by what we work for by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

There is no hope even that woman with her right to vote will ever purify politics.

For a person who promised hope and civility in politics Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.

Well Judy I would hope in the new year we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

To my great disappointment it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield Illinois.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.