I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
I keep my politics a little closer to me than others do.
America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the publi...
When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.
I don't believe in politics. I'm an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves.
When you enter the realm of politics, you don't enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song.
When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song. Pras did not affect me because, in the realm of politics, he has never stood up for anything.
The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activi...
I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African - Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Ja...
Yes, in the commercial world there's room for both McDonald's and Whole Foods, but in the realm of politics, we're told, it's either Filet-o-Fish or line-caught salmon: only one can prevail - and which is up to you.
It's been a concern of mine for years that the mainstream media coverage of culture and politics takes place in two nodes, Washington and New York, and yet all the voting goes on somewhere else.
Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics.
The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.
John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.
Politics, I believe, is a full-time occupation.
