No one wants to hear my perspective on politics but I think honestly as you get older you get more interested in it.

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

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

I don't miss politics.

I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live.

Like art and politics gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

To balance China the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy youthful population and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.

No matter where I go - London Beirut Jerusalem Washington Beijing or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better not pull them apart.

I don't feel finally that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then it's like watching preseason football.