In politics it seems retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

In Washington DC politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.

I'm no expert on American politics.

On the show we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole but I don't watch politics for sport.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

When you look at our world the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world which has never been done before.

What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.

The challenge in working in politics particularly if you're working for a political party is that everyone's a messenger.

Politics is gut commercials are gut.

I was really fascinated by politics. It always has been part of my view that politics really is a calling or you wouldn't go into it because it's demanding and potentially has a toll on you and your family.

I always had a long-term view of going into politics so I suppose I was always careful. I mean I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.

I'm not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics.

In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

Rush Limbaugh we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican that's another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches attacks on nuns well you know what they say in politics a hit dog hollers.

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on this is the black hole of American politics.

Yes you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.

I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.