When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.
'Time Rolls On' is my most political piece so far. It's not on my album because people didn't support it.
I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.
An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament.
Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues.
In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.
Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques.
I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.
We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.
I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.
I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.
The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.
Telecom is a dramatic success in India and our view is, respecting the political process, and respecting the fact that these are sovereign decisions, is that, approaching India as a friend.
Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.
A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process.
In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.
Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.
