After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.
Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.
I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.
I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.
As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.
I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.
I don't want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.
Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.
Possibly the fact that I was physically quite feeble, a relatively short little fellow, attracted me to that idea of a very authoritative and aggressive version of Conservative politics.
Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives.
As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.
The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.
Press critics worry that the rise of media polarization threatens the foundation of credible, common information that American politics needs to thrive.
In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.
My views tend to be centrist. I'm not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Republican than not.
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.
