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. Lucy Powell on politics
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. Lucy Powell on politics
Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable. Charles Edison on politics
Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science. Freeman Dyson on politics
Politics is show business for ugly people. Paul Begala on politics
Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private. Tahar Ben Jelloun on politics
I'm not going to talk like I know about politics, because I'm a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren't normally interested in politics. Bjork on politics
But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions. Bjork on politics
Politics is a highly tribal business. Nick Clegg on politics
You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed. Nick Clegg on politics
I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more. Nick Clegg on politics
I have got instincts that, I think, are very much in tune with people's very keen sense to see something different. I did not dream of being in politics since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I was not involved in student politics, or not in that partisan way. Nick Clegg on politics
What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked. Nick Clegg on politics
The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties. Nick Clegg on politics
Politics and power is a realm of relative influence. Fareed Zakaria on politics
I don't get involved in record label politics. Leona Lewis on politics
At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media. Sean Parker on politics
I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else. William Howard Taft on politics
I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football. Trey Parker on politics