With any tween, you have issues, from what they are going to wear to school, to how do you get them to speak politely, to how regularly they lose their contact lenses.
Sometimes you must agree with someones opinion for the sake of being polite and modest, but within you, you know that you are not foolish and crazy.
The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.
If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.
American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.
The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.
When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office.
Pond scum stinks. And so do the Obama administration's enormous, taxpayer-funded 'investments' in politically connected biofuel companies.
No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.
There's as much revealed in the way a person lifts a glass as in what they say about some political issue.
I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together.
Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect.
I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was my first political trick.
I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House and still be political enough to advance an agenda.
There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
I'm not here to affect you politically or socially. I'm here to make you laugh. I use the news as the palette for my jokes.
Al Qaeda's central political objective is the creation of an Islamic republic, the progressive realignment of American foreign policy.
Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.
We need scientists and mathematicians explaining why they are excited about their subjects but also why they are important for solving social problems, informing political debate and for the economy.
In light matters--matters of small consequence, like religion and politics and such things--he never acquired a conviction that could survive a disapproving remark from a cat.
The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift to doing that.
