Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.

Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.