Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Disconnection or alienation from the past has political consequences.
Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.
Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.
Transformational politics requires us to challenge the way people think about issues, opening their minds to better possibilities.
But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.
We need to reaffirm that politics is not merely compatible with economic progress and development in the 21st century, but essential to it.
Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be.
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.