I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.
You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.
Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know?
Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.
I don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns I have that fall into politics are human concerns.
I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do.
Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.
All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.
If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
Among other things Jonestown was an example of a definition well known to sociologists of religion: a cult is a religion with no political power.
...political correctness is ... not about tolerance; it’s about “toe the party line or it’s the gulag for you, Comrade.” -
Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.
Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them
Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the people.
There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'
Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.
It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.
Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.
