Politics isn't about big money or power games it's about the improvement of people's lives.
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
It is money money money! Not ideas not principles but money that reigns supreme in American politics.
My mom is like this hard-core liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.
We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
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.
Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.