We read too much Shakespeare at school and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits was promised and has earned.

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

I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.

The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.

Skip the religion and politics head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics as a practise whatever its professions has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Politics as a practice whatever its professions has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.