The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every year I tell myself that I'm not going to read any reviews and then I do. We're all human and when I read something negative it hurts. I think when you write it's part of the game, you're going to get some good reviews and some bad reviews and that's how it goes. I don't write for the reviews.
Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading.
What might be good for ratings can be bad for the country. The hard-core partisans are self-segregating themselves into separate political realities. But the majority of Americans are starting to wake up to the game.
There is this concept of politics as a dirty game.
If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.
Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy.
People are going to have their opinions. Whether it's good or bad, I don't really think about it either way.
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.