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.

There is a need for more effective dialogue... between the government and the international community.

If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding.

The burden of proof is now on the Palestinians... They must fight terrorism and dismantle its infrastructures in order to make possible progress on the roadmap.

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.

If we dare to come closer to our fellow human beings, we will be able to see and understand them better.

We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.

We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.

Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.

Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history.

Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.

We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.

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.

Each individual is unique. We all have equal worth. Young and old, those who can cope and those who need help.

Don't believe those who claim that only left wing parties really care about employment.

Knowledge of other peoples beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges not to create conflicts.

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

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

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Hope springs eternal, even in politics.

Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.

I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics.

The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller.

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.

My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it.