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 hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

After much prayerful consideration I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

When governments become large voters cannot exercise close oversight otherwise known as political power.

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.

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

I think that the job of poetry its political job is to refresh the idea of justice which is going dead in us all the time.

My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there I know there will be people who will listen.

As for political poetry as it's usually defined it seems there's very little good political poetry.

I don't like political poetry and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that I think it is missing the point of the American tradition which is always apolitical even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.

Because in fact women feminists do read my poetry and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care that's what poetry is supposed to do.

But I am not political in the current events sense and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

A public expectation it has to be said not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen but rarely what the poet wants.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure.

Several studies and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts as well as threats to peace can be dealt with using conventional weapons.

It is not to be disguised that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace which they would effect is superficial false and temporary.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.

The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.

Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop.