Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.
I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.
Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.
I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.
People underestimate the hip-hop audience and the capacity to understand politics when it's part of music.
One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.
No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.
My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.
Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.
I'm not very big on politics. I'm a comedian and not that smart. I don't have the mind capacity for it.
In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.
I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.
Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever.
