He's taken politics out of the back room and placed it squarely by the front door.
In reality, the biggest challenge facing the service is to take politics out of parks management.
Perhaps it seems quaint now, but at the time, her remarks were seen as taking politics to a new tabloid low.
If we take "politics" in the old Establishment sense - international and economic policy, along with the electoral system - then he definitely is.
I stopped taking politics seriously a long, long time ago, therefore it's had practically no effect on the way I've lived my life.
There's a lot of talk about taking politics out of Parliament into the streets.
Those who want to establish political parties are in fact trying to take politics out of the mosque.
He wants to take politics out of this issue.
Sure, it has to take domestic politics into account.
As he once said about fund-raising, "You can't take politics out of politics."