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While I hold my own political views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual candidates and personalities, but instead to focus on the real issues.

I think it's my interaction with journalists that has pegged me more as political than my actual records, although they have obviously political aspects to them as well.

I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.

I've been in politics now for long enough to not worry about what others are saying, but instead to talk about what I believe.

My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them.

I follow politics very closely. I read several newspapers every day.

I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when I wound up doing philosophy, to try to use it to move the public debate.

I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.

I've become very interested in the spectrum of political discourse as seen on the cable news channels that are conveniently right in a row on my cable provider's dial. I can flip from Fox to CNN to HLN to MSNBC, and I find myself at night flipping it back and forth through them, and it's something of an addiction.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That's not my issue.