One of the big changes in politics has been because families individuals have felt worried insecure... worried about the economy worried about their jobs worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller.

I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say 'Let's talk about something else.'

We need to remember that politics is all about people not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.

My shows aren't about trying to save some place because I don't feel that's the right venue for it. That's my politics right there: Don't bring politics to my shows.

Frankly if you do politics you should not be thinking about your dignity.

I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.

Telling the truth and confronting the challenge is what politics is about.

I have some very personal feelings about politics but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.

One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming cleaning modernising our clapped-out system.

Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer fairer and cleaner 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor.

When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed in the face of every constitutional convention only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.

This aesthetic quality then is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers good politics from bad and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys.

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

We discussed politics but we also talked about the importance of hard work personal responsibility living within your means keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.

I don't know why that is but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.

I'm not an old experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

I must not write a word to you about politics because you are a woman.

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

The United States brags about its political system but the President says one thing during the election something else when he takes office something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.