I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

As I've gotten older I've gotten more liberal and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents I practically fell out of my chair.

If we tried to write about politics you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots.

I will go to the next election saying to Australians vote for me vote for the Liberal Party and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition.

The more that I know of politics the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics everybody wakes up and goes to work.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Poetry's always dead you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.