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You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.

I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.

That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

I don't think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

I believe that politics takes a much different set of skills than science. Science is about getting to the truth. Politics is about what people think and how they react.

Politics is not an exact science.