I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.

I like to see myself as a bridge builder that is me building bridges between people between races between cultures between politics trying to find common ground.

I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.

The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you you can't give up politics it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.

I guess you'd call me an independent since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves no matter what the party label.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

I always voted at my party's call and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

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

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time so kids didn't know what to make of me.