Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us that is taught to us when we are very very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.

Yet it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love lust longing joy rage fear triumph yearning and confusion.

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics because I'm famous.

Like religion politics and family planning cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.

While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith our politics and our culture are in the main less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.

Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power but a failure of love.