“In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.”
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.
