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.
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.
After Political independence, Africans needed mental freedom for them to advocate for economical independence
Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.
We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
The biggest thing politically within fashion is that the clothing should be displayed on different body shapes.
In my work as an actress and an activist, I've spent many years working with low income communities and people of color who don't always have a voice in our political process.
Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.
I think politicians know how to misrepresent data in order to support a political agenda. Politicians and the people that work for them - I should say - are expert at that.
I have been studying women's political behavior since the early 1970s and first identified the gender gap in 1980 with the help of legendary pollster Louis Harris.
There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.
Women tend to give political candidates only about 10 percent of what males give, and males give women candidates only 10 percent of what they give to males.
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
