Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of you know not sensitive to what people wanted.

After I became a citizen I felt freer to say what I thought about this country both negative and positive. I think I had been consciously and subconsciously biting my tongue in the past.

As I became very defined in my personal politics I turned down some films that I slightly regret now I'm not going to say what they were.

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility if we all sat back and did nothing of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics.

These days politics religion media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

When I became leader I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics.

The irony is going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.