“London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble we had severe energy problems we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.”
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“The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.”
“I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.”
“Nothing is irreparable in politics.”
“In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.”
“I hate politics. I like to write about it, but to get involved in it, to try and make a lot of ignorant people do what you want them to do, waste of time. Go and write a book. It's more important and it'll last longer.”
“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.”
“I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.”
“America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.”
“If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.”
“I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.”
“People feel politics isn't about their lives.”
“Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.”
“I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.”
“You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.”
“My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.”
“Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.”
“People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for.”
“My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.”
“Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.”
“The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.”
“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.”
“I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.”
“Politics is not a healthy lifestyle.”