I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
Brazil go into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil, it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country. Not just the fans and players, but everybody in Brazil lets us know that they expect it...
I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like what the guitar player is doing, and you have to sort of even that out.
Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.
As a matter of fact I don't like politics. I really don't. I think it's so jaded now and everybody has to follow the party line.
This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.
When the 2008 victory of Barack Obama and the defeat of grumpy old John McCain began looking, um, inevitable, I started fielding inquiries about whether 'Nixonland' - the name of the book I published that spring about the origins of the generation of...
There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.
Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.
I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first a...
If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
I kinda halfway paid attention to politics during my early years, but the older you get, the more you realize it's very important to pay attention to who gets elected. They can ruin the country.
