I'm not involved in politics, and I've never had any political role. I've never been in office. I've never taken any public administrative jobs.
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
I think that I have very few personal gifts to bring to real politics.
Nothing is irreparable in politics.
I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
In politics the middle way is none at all.
Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.
I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between...
When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.
First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful ...
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like to talk about ideas and get people to be specific.
We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned.
There is always a testing of the new kid on the block in politics.
So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.
We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.
I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.
My Methodist upbringing was very formative in my politics. I was born in 1969, and there was all this ecumenical 'we're in this together' sensitivity that was part of the United Methodist Church in the 1970s.
My parents are apolitical - no bumper stickers, no yard signs. They don't talk about politics.
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.
