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.
If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.
As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?
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.
First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.
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 guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.
In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.
No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles.
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
Politics is not an exact science.
I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?
Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.
In politics and in society, we can use our reason to rise above our parochial natures. Too bad that our elected officials don't choose to do so more often.
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
