I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.
I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.
When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on.
It's too hard to present an opinion on something that's not true to who you are. It's much easier to base opinions and debates off of fact and your true heart on things. To me that just comes quite naturally, and it's also about being open to what the debate is about and hearing the other side.
We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.
Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.
Whether you are liberal or conservative, people seem to know the talking points for whatever the issue of the day is. Very rarely does it seem like these are opinions that people are coming up with themselves; it's like they watched the right cable news channel, and now they know what they are supposed to think, and they repeat that.
I follow politics, but I don't like to discuss it.
I've been in politics now for long enough to not worry about what others are saying, but instead to talk about what I believe.