I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.

The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations of creation and behavior and religion.

Sexy in India is not considered positive. But with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena being sexy is an asset.

We need to remember that politics is all about people not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.

Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.

Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone extinguished because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena and we are seeing it very very plainly.

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.