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I enjoy politics, but if I had a third career - and I've had multiple careers - my third act would be acting.

It's easy to have an act one and two. Go ahead and have an act three, four, and five. The saying is the easy part. The doing is the hard part.

I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more, and I can take more unpopular decisions.

I had no intention of entering politics, but then the force of events led me to become involved in politics.

I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more and I can take more unpopular decisions. I can have as my guidance for decision whatever is right, not whatever is popular.

I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.

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 have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me.