Healthcare reform is a paradigmatic case. It is self-evidently necessary and inevitable and has been on the agenda for 35 years, and the political class seems completely unable to respond to it.
When you're a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous.
Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that.
To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
I feel the whole issue has been a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader Republican political agenda.
Having parents who were hard working, blue collar, and staunchly independent, neither political party's positioning really impressed me.
I could not cherish London and not value Jewish London. The contribution of Jews to London is immense - politically, economically, culturally, intellectually, philanthropically, artistically.
I am different than some people would like me to be. I just don't buy into that the personal can be political.
The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.
The fine line that you do when you do political comedy is, as long as you have that laugh, you're fine.
I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.
I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.
The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.
People show surprise that I have interests outside my political career. There is subtle surprise, for example, that I would be interested in a recipe.
Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.
You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.
When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.
The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter.
Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate.
