Yet it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love lust longing joy rage fear triumph yearning and confusion.

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics because I'm famous.

Like religion politics and family planning cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.

While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith our politics and our culture are in the main less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.

Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power but a failure of love.

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority ' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?

In politics what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

Ideology politics and journalism which luxuriate in failure are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past the record of truths revealed by experience is eminently practical as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

Love is blind. My politics has been too. I think you can fall in love with ideas and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have the worse you get.

Fracking is doable if there's full disclosure of all chemicals used. Secondly science dictates the policy rather than politics. Third there's collaboration between environmental groups and the natural gas industry.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education academia the service industry arts publishing theater politics fashion finance as well as movie-making.

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.

At the bottom of education at the bottom of politics even at the bottom of religion there must be for our race economic independence.

Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.

America is not just a democracy it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations politics is not merely a clash of interests but a clash of dreams.

I came at age in the '60s and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.