The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.
Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.
Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.
Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.
I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.
Governing means governing all of the people, no matter what demographic it is, whether it'd be black, white, women, straight, gay, Republican.
My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.
I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.
They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.
Everyday I find myself reminding women around me to know their value. I also have to remind myself.
We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.
Many women are pear-shaped and tend to wear jeans that are too loose. They need to focus on what jeans will re-proportion their body.
How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.
flies can't help eatin' shit cause that's where their tastes lead 'em
I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.
I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being a housewife in a big country house wasn't for me.
I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.
I'm tired of people questioning me because of my age. If you looked at my numbers and watched me throw and covered my birthdate, would age be an issue?
I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.
Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
