My own early crusade for same-sex marriage for example is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Well I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal not what is illegal.

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle progress without compassion wealth without work learning without silence religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

In terms of the principles of politics I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership who has the management skills to help the country.

Divorced from ethics leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive strong and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch the antithesis of leadership.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

All along we find that social life - religion politics art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.