People show surprise that I have interests outside my political career. There is subtle surprise, for example, that I would be interested in a recipe.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.
I've never been interested in self-promotion and that side of politics; and if that means people judge that you're less prominent than others, that's a choice I've been willing to make.
People like to do politics with me, and they like to do business.
Promising something that seems popular at the time that you know you're never going to deliver - that's the kind of cynical politics that I don't want any part of.
I want to be surprised by what people do, I don't want to work with people who need to be told what to do. I want people to show me what they've got.
There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me.
I'm flattered by the fact that most people tell me they don't know what my politics are.
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
I don't know why it surprises people that I surprise them.
I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.