Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters.
I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.
There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.
The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics.
Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.
Mitt Romney is a nice guy. But, we know where nice guys finish in politics.
Part of the problem in politics is that people only look at the next four to eight years: kick the can down the road and say, 'Hey, it's the next person's problem.'
I've been in politics now for long enough to not worry about what others are saying, but instead to talk about what I believe.
Bangalore now wants a person who doesn't only play politics. Bangalore needs a problem solver, and I am a problem solver. I will be the bridge between Bangalore and the Centre.
I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.
I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.
I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.
There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school.
I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children.
As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.
