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

There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all who've never been in a trade union they've never been in a political party they've never done anything but they do feel a kind of urgency.

It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.

Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center there are things we can accomplish.

I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre art music politics and philosophy.

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

There's a couple things you don't talk about in life and that's race religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.

Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street the battlers by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility if we all sat back and did nothing of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole an empty place and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people you have to educate and persuade and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul.

There will be no politics no ifs and buts if we see something and feel that work needs to be done we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same but it's far tougher now because record companies are run by financial people before they were run by creative people.

Yeah exactly you can talk about politics in music you can talk about something else but that's always going to change and love is never going to change.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

Local politics like everything else are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system - like our physical existence - still breaks down along geographical lines.

Well for me the pro-life issue has been something I've been very passionate about since the '70s and I have been very involved in the pro-life community since long before politics.

People not just reporters are more interested in politics than in government so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

I have got instincts that I think are very much in tune with people's very keen sense to see something different. I did not dream of being in politics since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I was not involved in student politics or not in that partisan way.