I guess probably in my time in politics it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community despite being subscription television's most valuable customers they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options.

If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America I plead guilty.

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject and I almost don't understand why some people don't.

Politics as the word is commonly understood are nothing but corruptions.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Alliance - in international politics the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound and when you understand it it is only ridiculous.

I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it's understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don't have a clue what they're on about.

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.

Still language is resilient and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.