My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.
Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you're working for a political party, is that everyone's a messenger.
Spirituality is the foundation of all my political work.
Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.
When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.
Without the political parties and the volunteering work of their members day in, day out, we would have a very different sort of politics and society.
I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.
People are naturally hardworking but will stop working hard at anything if they learn from experience that their effort makes no difference.
Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.
You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
Politics and more politics - that's how you work towards the building of agreements.
It is difficult to make political art work.
But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.
I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.
Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting.
Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.
I'm not politically committed at all in the popular sense; that is, to any party. I'm committed to whatever's best for the normal working person. I'm not a great fan of politics.
