But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.

There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil that's probably a sign that you're losing.

I look for the humanity in people however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.

No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.

I have got instincts that I think are very much in tune with people's very keen sense to see something different. I did not dream of being in politics since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I was not involved in student politics or not in that partisan way.

Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is in my view as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.

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

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.