We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. ...
I'm not sure I had a political career for the future anyway. I'm not sure that politics was what I wanted to spend my life doing.
I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life.
There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.
Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.
To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.
If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.
Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.
I just don't accept midgets as human beings. There's only so much political correctness I can accept.
In every capitalist economy there are anti-capitalist movements, activists, and even political parties; in a way, that there are no longer anti-democratic movements, activists, and parties.
I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy. And I guess I've always liked to channel some kind of personal element to that.
Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.
John Adams warned of the division of America into two great political parties. Luckily, the parties we ended up with are mediocre at best.
As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.
You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
What makes me worry today is the alarming decline in the trust in democratic institutions - political parties, Parliaments, political leaders. Less and less people are going to the polls in most advanced democracies.
Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain.
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
