Quotes About Reflection

When I was younger, I remember families like mine who had to deal with the disastrous policies of the 1970s.

We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith.

I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.

My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side of me that's more polished.

I'm not sure I had a political career for the future anyway. I'm not sure that politics was what I wanted to spend my life doing.

One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.

I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?

I was politically complacent during the Blair years. Things were good and people thought things would be good forever.

I'm not interested in showing a politician falling over; it's about the issue and making people think differently about that.

I couldn't imagine a more incompetent politician than myself.

I've developed a much greater respect for our politicians and every high-tech CEO. It's very easy to read about the things they did that you, of course, would have avoided in hindsight.

We should look back now and then. Our politicians should look back every now and then.

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.

If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.

I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'

I die a hundred deaths each day. I die when I see hungry people. Or people who're sad. I die when I know I can do nothing about pollution in Mumbai. I die when I feel helpless when my loved one is in pain.

I know it's not enjoying my success to do this, but when I see too many Polo shirts, I say to myself, 'That's the end of that.'

I've known Dennis Kucinich for a long time, and I don't think I have illusions about him. Sometimes I find him pompous, male chauvinistic, intellectually unbending. But he is a good man, and a serious one.

Humour is - how do I say this without sounding pompous - it's a huge part of my life.

My favorite place to read is next to the pond in my backyard.

You know you are grown sentimental when you start counting the cygnets on the duck pond in the park to be sure none has perished since you counted last.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

I want to move people to think and ponder the question of their own healthcare. And it doesn't need to be political thinking.