Economics politics and personalities are often inseparable.

Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is in my view as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.

We need to dig deep and give people a reason to be optimistic just as Obama is doing in America. Because in the same way that outcome of the U.S. elections will change the course of events there and around the world so too do politics here in Britain.

For sure the 'Obamania' that's fast taking hold reflects an incredible thirst for change in global politics and dare I say a wave of optimism that things can be different.

The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities through legislation and other means and to increase women's representation in politics which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians.

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.

Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.

I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I've just decided to be non-political and very very pro-soldier.

Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless the other party cannot afford to be spineless.

I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.

Negative politics have always been around.

The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about and if you don't know what your vision is go at somebody else.

Look there ought to be politics in politics.

If you really want to diminish a candidate depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.