Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I kept a steel wall around my moral and sexual instincts - protecting them, I thought, from the threats of the real world. This gave me a tremendous advantage in politics, if not in my soul. The true me, my spiritual core, slipped further and further from reach. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>