Given the daunting challenges that we face it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.

The challenge in working in politics particularly if you're working for a political party is that everyone's a messenger.

In politics the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.

Telling the truth and confronting the challenge is what politics is about.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo to serve the common good and to leave this nation better than we found it.

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10 000 people.

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders that he is a literary aristocracy of one.