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I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense.

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.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.

We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

There will be no politics, no ifs and buts; if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects.

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.

I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.

Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.

Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.