King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out.
Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.
National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.
We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. ...
I'm not sure I had a political career for the future anyway. I'm not sure that politics was what I wanted to spend my life doing.
I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life.
There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.
Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.
To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.
Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.
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.
