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There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.

I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.

You can't just talk politics all the time - it's boring.

Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one.

One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close.

I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

I always believe writing is an indispensable part of one's political armoury.