As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance.
While I hold my own political views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual candidates and personalities, but instead to focus on the real issues.
If your political views define who you are as a human, and you can't stand to have friends that have different views than you, than you need to reevaluate, my friend.
Political views in the hiring of career attorneys and staff should not be used. If I am asked to do that, I will not allow it.
Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
A figure who receives money from abroad for his political work, and thus serves some foreign interest, cannot be a politician in Russia.
Spirituality is the foundation of all my political work.
Through my political work in D.C., and having done 'Milk' I got to know a lot of gay octogenarians. They are lovely and they like to tell their stories, and I like hearing them.
I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they do is hold roundtables and release political statements, which is all well and good. But there are concrete things that need to get done in order to achieve the basic goal of every opposition politician.
I have a very clear, genuine vision about what political work should be, what politics and politicians should contribute to the nation.
I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.
I don't control the political world.
I'm not registered to any party. I don't really play in the political world. I'm really more interested in getting things done.
I think that for social conservatism to make sense as a political world view, it has to have a more capacious understanding of what kind of society it wants than just saying, 'Leave us alone and let us pass laws against abortion.'
You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.
I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world.
What has struck me about the political world, as opposed to the business world, is that rational discourse has become all but impossible. All too often, arguments are conducted not on the basis of facts but on the basis of emotion - and, honestly, it is no fun being abused in the pages of tabloid newspapers or online.
The political world is defined by relationships rather than transactions, and by numerous actors at home and abroad with independent power. Navigating such a world is difficult and precarious.
It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.
