Joe Kent believes that his resignation was a necessary action taken after he felt he had exhausted all other options to influence policy and steer the administration away from war from the inside.

“So I I decided to resign at this juncture because I thought that I had kind of expended all options for helping us get out of the current state that we're in.”

Eric Swalwell's resignation from Congress is a calculated political maneuver by the Democratic Party to remove a liability.

“This is just a political maneuver to stab the man in the back.”

Ministers should be judged on whether their actions are right or wrong rather than just political calculations.

“I don't think it is really about the media I think it's about what you feel deep down whether you think this is right or wrong what's happened is right or wrong I think that does come into it in a big way”

Politicians who try to cling on to their positions instead of resigning immediately damage their careers beyond repair.

“if you try to cling on so long that you're eventually sacked um you damage your career in a way that it's very difficult to come back from”