In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

I never have been involved in politics.

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.

I don't follow politics much.

If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.

I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I really think that my best shot at moving the needle in politics is by getting close to it - by reading, reporting, tweeting and writing.