Lives that are so conspicuous have a claustrophobic feeling. Once you're in charge of running a country, you're under scrutiny all the time. That's a trap.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.
Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.
When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are.
Most people have fallen by the wayside once or twice in their lives, and because the world is so transparent now, I think they're very fearful of running for office.
I have a vision of my country, and I cannot sit and watch things pass by.
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.
But sometimes in the midst of worry, anxiety and hard work, it has been pretty hard to bear all these false reports going about the country - to see my friends alienated and being made to believe things that were absolutely false.
Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.
It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people.