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?
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest.
I spend time in the classroom. I think more of them aren't political science than are political science. I particularly like talking to journalism students.
'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
I was forced to come into politics because Saakashvili had destroyed the opposition. I had a choice either to leave the country, because it was dangerous to live here, or to go into politics.
I'm not going to talk like I know about politics, because I'm a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren't normally interested in politics.
I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics.
