I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.
Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.
There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.
It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.
I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.
It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.
Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.