Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.
When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.
In politics, there's a kind of literal-mindedness. It's what you say, not what you mean, and you have to say only what you mean.
It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.
It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.
Political life is like a big wheel: constantly turning. At times you are up, at times down. But always, the wheel keeps moving.
The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.