It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about things that interest me: politics religion ecology and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

It's not just the effect of technology on the environment on religion on the economic structure on society on politics etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.

There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as in religion. By persuading others we convince ourselves.

Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart.

History is the key to everything: politics religion even fashion.

The power of women in the politics is a soft power. It is a positive change that our country and other countries in the region... are making by giving a chance to women.

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics mistakes are wounding emotionally but you recover. Personally wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms helps me reflect and in the process restore my creativity.

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is and always has been that the boys want to be something while the men want to do something.

We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.

First take the government of the Indians out of politics second let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third give the Indian the ballot.

Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet but there will be one.

I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do.

Most people get their politics obviously from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling or about politics and idea is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests - 'lobbies' they call them in the States.

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.

If Greece had gone through a very normal political life I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.

'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

I have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me.