To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

Richard Nixon was a very complex man. I don't think he was a conservative, nor liberal, not even a moderate. He was a pragmatic politician. He loved politics.

Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't.

I keep telling these millennials it's all about them to get into politics and start making things happen. They don't care about whether or not someone is gay. They don't care to see contraception taken away or want to even discuss it. They're going forward, not backward.

The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles and interests to check excesses and create a balance in our politics that would benefit 'we the people.' Gerrymandered districts and a hyped-up fight-night media offer a partial explanation of why we seem to have neither checks nor balances.

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

I do not comment on politics, but I see computerization of the election process as good for stability and social harmony.

The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics.

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

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

If I'm lucky enough to be involved in the Academy Awards in the future, I'll just let people make up their decision without being involved in any politics. Because it shouldn't involve that.

Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.

That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics.

If I wanted to write a bunch of comics about 50-year-olds sitting around having a conversation about politics, that would be realistic, but it'd be the dullest comic in the world.

A lot of people are surprised when I talk so much about the present, but politics is just a crucial part of archaeology.

I've spent many hours on national TV talking about politics and current affairs, including sexual harassment and the #MeToo Movement.

Unfortunately, I think it's very difficult to separate policy from politics. In a perfect world, in some instances, you probably would want to. In other instances, you'd probably say that the political element is important because it should, in a perfect world, match what the stakeholders need or want, or what the public is after.

Part of my desire to play music was because I wanted to escape the art world and the politics of it; the petty gossip-y art world. But you know, I feel like they're both equal forms of expression.

Hope springs eternal, even in politics.

I am sure future historians will say the biggest and most astonishing change in politics has been the embracing of all the tenets of Thatcherism by the party of Keir Hardie: trade union legislation, Europe, the replacement of Trident, 10 per cent tax for people who have made millions from their companies.

Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system - like our physical existence - still breaks down along geographical lines.

My dad told me something long before I was in politics, and when your dad gives you advice every single day, eventually one or two of the things stick in your mind. And he said, don't believe what people say, believe what they do.

Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.

So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.

Solemnity in politicians is not only tiresome but may even mask those twin sins - self-righteousness and intolerance - for the opinions of others. If I couldn't laugh, I couldn't live, especially in politics.

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively.

I think politics come out of psychology.

I love comedians that dive into politics. I personally don't feel comfortable, with my background, weighing in unless I have a take that I think is funny enough that I would put it in front of an audience.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

Friends, there is no Left in American politics.

Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.

Finality is not the language of politics.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Any time you have a competitive situation like politics is, there are winners, and there are people who don't win, and their supporters can sometimes be very emotional.

Once Canadians no longer believe that there is any good in politics, they no longer feel we can work together to solve the challenges we're facing, and that is my fundamental motivation: how do we work together as a country to solve the big challenges we're facing.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Politics should not interfere with sports. And sports should impact politics.

I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them.

Politics ruins the character.

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

I have a bigger voice than Donald Trump, you know what I'm saying? Than literally anybody that works in politics.