When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I get to advocate issues and ideas that I believe in.
I think I brush the surface of being involved politically with the issues and the personalities in the news.
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.
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 never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.
It's easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.
I sometimes feel that I have been born to attract controversy.
IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.
I always thought, 'I could go the route of saying some controversial things and have it explode, just do it like that. But I don't do that.' But of course, it wasn't really up to me.
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.