I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.
I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.
I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.
During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.
Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not going to get endorsements or anything like that.
There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.
If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.
The global triumph of American technology has been predicated on the implicit separation between the business interests of Silicon Valley and the political interests of Washington.
Absolutely. I think that this is - politics is a tough business. I describe it as a full contact sport. You have to be prepared to get in there and mix it up.
I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! I entered in with no business sense.
It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.
I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!
Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.
Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability.
I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.
The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.
The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.
The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
