«— You don’t have much use for politics?None whatever. I regard politics as a thoroughly foul, rotten world. We get nowhere through politics. It debases everything.
— Even political idealism of Orwell’s sort?
Especially that! The idealists in politics lack a sense of reality. And a politician must be a realist above all. These people with ideals and principles, they’re all at sea, in my opinion. One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one. I mean, those are the ones who flourish.»
