I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is values and people here in their local communities and remembering all politics is local and trusting people more.

I've never worked in politics never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

We need to remember that politics is all about people not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

Before I went to jail I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself.

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.