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I may have come into politics with an unacknowledged condescension toward the game and the people who played it, but I left with more respect for politicians than when I went in. The worst of them - the careerists and predators - you find in all professions. The best of them were a credit to democracy.

There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.

I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.

I've gotten to believe it's more fun to play politicians than actually be them.

I got into politics when I was eight years old.

I ended up in Parliament and soon discovered that emotion really doesn't have any place in politics. It's a much more intricate and complicated game, and I just didn't know how to play it.

When I was a teenager, I loved political conventions.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say 'Well, here's the point.'