I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Politics isn't about big money or power games it's about the improvement of people's lives.

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.