After tiring of a life in politics he gambled his future on a lot of rare Madeira that he bought for a song (because demand was listless) and started his company.
These grim events, he says, propelled him towards a later life in politics.
Plaid Cymru called on the Welsh Government to look for solutions so that there isn't a deficit in reporting the life and politics in Wales.
She said she knew "the importance of connecting the concerns of local communities with those of the wider Labour movement" and was "brought up in a family where practical politics was part of everyday life, both through the trade unions and in local councils".
Mr Ahern would be best described as a political animal - spending most of his adult life involved in politics at different levels.
Wisconsin's Russ Feingold, another three-termer who has spent his entire adult life in politics, could also be making a career decision if he votes to raise taxes.
But a year in politics is equal to a century in normal life.
In politics as in life, Newt Gingrich is a man of expensive tastes and somewhat more modest resources.
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Like the overwhelming majority of figures in public life across the political spectrum, I entered politics because of a sense of public duty and to improve the lives and opportunities of those less fortunate than me.
David Cameron, the Tory leader, went from university into the party's research department and, apart from a few years studying the dark arts of public relations, has been in politics all his adult life.
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Women bring a critical perspective and life experience to the table, and our world would be a better place if we had equal representation in politics.
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Liberal politics, on his account, is rooted in a view of what matters in a human life.
Let me just assure you that first of all I have spent half of my adult life in the public sector in government in the United States and politics and the other half of my adult life in academe in the United States as a professor.
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