Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me as a late-night talk show which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.

My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.

You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

Good politics starts with empathy proceeds to analysis then sets out values and establishes the vision before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

People feel politics isn't about their lives.

I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.

If you want to know about my politics the only way to do that is to look at my work.

America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.

I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.

There will be no politics no ifs and buts if we see something and feel that work needs to be done we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects.

I hate politics. I like to write about it but to get involved in it to try and make a lot of ignorant people do what you want them to do waste of time. Go and write a book. It's more important and it'll last longer.

In argument truth always prevails finally in politics falsehood always.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

The journey for women no matter what venue it is - politics business film - it's it's a long journey.

London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble we had severe energy problems we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.