It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.
Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.
I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.
In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the games, demagogy and the marketing of politics.
I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.
It's kind of hard in politics to forget that you're a Democrat or a Republican and remember that you're a father and a grandfather... and that they're entitled to more than they're getting.
Pakistani politics is complicated, and I think it's not something a foreigner can easily assimilate and understand.
Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
I entered politics in 1967; since then, continuously, I am getting elected... Fortunately I never lost the elections.
Honestly, acting is the most work when you're unemployed. For me, the actual acting part is never hard. It's the politics and basically everything around the acting that is difficult.
I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.
Politicians are actors, too, don't you think? Usually, if you like people and you're outgoing, not a shy little thing, you can do pretty well in politics.
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald's. I'm completely turned off by the idea of politics.
Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
I really believe in the radical viewpoint. And I have always believed that one's politics and the character of his particular work are inseparable.
There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.
