“Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something because you need to do something else. For me it's all about what fuels my soul and if I'm passionate about a screenplay then that's what I'll do next.”
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“Politics is politics art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.”
“We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.”
“In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.”
“Politics isn't about left versus right it's about top versus bottom.”
“I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.”
“In politics, there are no friends.”
“We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.”
“Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.”
“Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals, and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion.”
“I never let my politics supersede my manners.”
“Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.”
“Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.”
“I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.”
“If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.”
“My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.”
“I'm pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.”
“Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.”
“I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.”
“The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.”
“The sheep-people don't think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and it's the gospel truth and they don't have to go research it or anything, and they believe everything the news tells them. People don't go and do their own investigations if it's relationships or politics or anything.”
“The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.”
“Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.”
“It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.”