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I’ve done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.
Hope springs eternal, even in politics.
There’s people coming in who’ve never done any politics at all, who’ve never been in a trade union, they’ve never been in a political party, they’ve never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.
Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.
Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.
I am not at all a politician. I don’t think I’m cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.
I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.
I’m not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.
My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.
When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly.