I want to become a serious politician like N T Rama Rao and Vinod Khanna who were from the film industry but joined politics and worked with utmost seriousness.

Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.

In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people decades in the future. And in politics, the urgent always trumps the important, and that is what makes it a very difficult and challenging issue.

I keep telling these millennials it's all about them to get into politics and start making things happen. They don't care about whether or not someone is gay. They don't care to see contraception taken away or want to even discuss it. They're going forward, not backward.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.

I started in politics as a fresh graduate wanting to make a difference, by bringing more political awareness and interest to young people.

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

I want a politics that doesn't need to pretend to be holy or perfect or infallible. I want a politics that gets on with it.

When I came into politics, I remember reading these scorecards of my performance, and I would routinely have these comments about not being assertive enough.

That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics.

Many issues are closely related to politics and I think Hong Kongers should pay more attention to politics.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

If somebody is saying that I should not compete because I'm a man, I don't know what to say to that. And if somebody is saying that I had it easy, I would invite them to join the military and enter Indiana politics in 2010 as a gay person. See how easy they find it.

I think politics are a personal thing, and everybody has a right to their own opinion.

Politics has become absurdly, stupidly, restrictively partisan.

Thatcherism, as an ideology, addresses the fears, the anxieties, the lost identities, of a people. It invites us to think about politics in images. It is addressed to our collective fantasies, to Britain as an imagined community, to the social imaginary.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.