African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.

I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.