"My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself." ― Antonio Tabucchi Topic(s): Politics More From Antonio Tabucchi "I live quietly at home among my family and friends." "Literature for me isn’t a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy." "No, I’m happy to go on living the life I’ve chosen. I’m a university teacher and I like my job." More In Politics "I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week… First things first – that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more."― Patricia Hewitt "I was a woman in a man’s world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot."― Jeane Kirkpatrick "The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong."― Fidel Castro