Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.
Crime does not pay as well as politics.
Not all political prisoners are innocents.
What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
Very few people go into politics to be reviled.
Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless.
We haven't had crime writers, and for a long time in the Republic, we didn't seem to have a crime problem as such.
In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness.
I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics.