Political biography is in the doldrums. No one wants to read 800 pages or so of cradle-to-grave dead politics, especially if it's familiar stuff and has all been written about before.
Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers.
What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.
I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.
What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record.
I like politics. I like traveling in the United States.
I understand the process of politics and the game of television.
A politically astute president who understood deeply the economics and politics of corporate tax reform could conceivably muscle Congress toward a reform package that made sense. Trump is not that leader.
Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.
Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.
I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more and I can take more unpopular decisions. I can have as my guidance for decision whatever is right, not whatever is popular.
Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time.
I chose not to go into politics and policy. Those policies are my husband's job.
We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
Politicians always do a two-step, depending on what their district politics looks like.
Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.
Conflict and callous politics drive famine.
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
Politics, in general, when you're trying to change the world for the better in any kind of way, no matter how small or how big, it's inches.
In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.
I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.
You can't not approve a merger because you don't like the companies' politics. That's just not right.
We're about music. We're not about politics.
The problem is not that the U.S. economy won't be able to take care of its citizens - it is that taking away benefits, creating intergenerational warfare, and scapegoating will make for very difficult and bad politics. This is a tragedy that we can see coming. Early action would be relatively painless.
I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.
Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal government programmes, with large amounts of public money being lost.
That's what politics is. It's the story of what's happening, what does it mean, what's the conclusion, who are the interesting characters?
It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.
