Sebastian Arcelus Quotes

I expected to go into journalism or law.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

I know politics; I know the media.

Why does it have to be politics? Is there a dynamism to that world and a theoretical capacity to do things that draws many talented people? Absolutely. Are there other ways to be involved and lead an interesting life? Of course.

Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in journalism for about five or six years and then I'd become a writer.

I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.

I love and always have loved policy issues and trying to have an impact on the issues that are out there. I cherish my years in government. I have loved my participation at CNN, at Current; writing; teaching. Where I will go next, I will have to sort out.

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

Politics is a matter of communications.

I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.

There are people who do things in tech that have the same skill sets that journalists have. They write, they edit, they put out press releases.

I felt that politics was one place where I could possibly have a career in arguing, debating, and getting to write papers. I almost considered working in law enforcement or something like that, but that didn't really last long.

First I'm a sportsman and then a politician.

I'm not a journalist or a politician or an activist.

Go out and speak for the inarticulate and submerged.

The press conference is as much a White House fixture as the cabinet meeting.

Make the paper interesting.

Misunderstanding is the great enemy of every White House press secretary.

No man can be a politician except he be first a historian.

I'm a writer. I've been a journalist for my whole adult life.

I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.

One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.