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To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.

My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.

Politics feels, on what I have seen of it, like joining a tribe, and a lot of it is about unspoken ways of behaving.

Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.

Politics is activity in relation to power.

Everything is politics.

I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.

Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.

I'm not tribal Labour. I'm a Liberal at heart. Different tradition, different language.

In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging.