Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.

I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.

Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.

Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting.

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.