The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter.
My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.
Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so.
The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses.
If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.
There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.
I believe that engaging in the political process is part of being a good person.
Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good.
There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.
I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.
Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.
Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.
Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.
Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.
Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.
Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.
Stability and a prosperous life cannot be set off against a set of political rights and freedoms.
Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.
