When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.

In politics you learn to always smile.

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics as a practise whatever its professions has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics as a practice whatever its professions has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.

I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.

You know the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.