I didn't come into politics to have to deal with the issue of clandestine entry, illegal working, or an asylum system that allows a free run for right-wing bigots.
Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics.
I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
I have to have an emotional connection to what I am ultimately selling because it is emotion, whether you are selling religion, politics, even a breath mint.
I don't want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.
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.
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.
I knew I had a lot to say. Not politically - politics have always confused me - but perhaps spiritually.
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.
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!
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.'
To succeed in big-city politics requires a powerful, motivating vision of a better world, a plan to get there, a willingness to meet constituents on their terms, and a tough political skin.
The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.
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.
I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
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.
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.
I've always been involved in politics, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I sold Kool-Aid for McGovern - I could always pick a winner.
