One of the things that's difficult for people to understand is when you join the military, you don't sign up as an endorsement of any particular policy of the moment.
But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.
In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.
I've never concerned myself with the issues. I'm a political mechanic.
Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country.
I would prefer not to be involved in party politics.
The senate was wealthy people and it wasn't elected, it was chosen through legislatures, which themselves were under private influence, powerful influence. They were remote from the population and that's where power was suppose to reside.
I'm not a big politics guy.
I'm pretty much done with political commentary. I've said everything I could possibly say. I've been a big mouth for long enough.
I will never join politics under any circumstances.
Politics is not really my thing.
I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party.
When it comes to political engagement, I'm not a politician - I'm an engineer.
I had the vocation for politics. What I didn't have was any aptitude for political combat. I took the attacks personally, which is a great mistake. It's never personal: It's just business. It was ever thus.
Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.
As a dramatist, I don't have politics.
For politicians neither love nor hate.
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.
The element which is conveniently missing from today's Republican Party is the human one. People's hopes and realities become numbers and words, devoid of personality and easy to erase.
I'm not a politician or political animal.
When I first started campaigning to become an MP in 2004, we were suffering as a party because our hierarchy and leadership were totally detached from the party's membership.
I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.
For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.
I think you could argue that President Obama could have watched a little cable news... I do think that there is value in understanding where the conversation is and having a little less detachment where the popular conversation is.
Politics was never in our blood and in our family... I will never return to it.
