I'd just as soon not get into a discussion about Jane and her politics. I'd just as soon stick to what we're here for, the picture.
So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.
Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.
I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.
Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.
I knew early on that I would do politics, but I would never make a living at it. I would do something else.
I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
I have always stayed out of politics, I don't believe it would be appropriate to talk about it.
I think everyone knows how much of a joint effort being in politics is. It requires all kinds of sacrifices and all kinds of support.
I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.
What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.
I think it eminently proper that a president should retire from active politics, and equally proper that he should be able to live in quiet independence.
I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.
Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
I don't like to talk about politics. If you say you're a Democrat, that'll turn off Republicans, and that's half of your fan base.
The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.
So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?
I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.
It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'
Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
