The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
One of the things government should be around for is to deal with catastrophes. It should do that well. To me, that's a government function, and we shouldn't be playing political games with it.
As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry.
I actually don't want to be an actor for the rest of my life. I'd like to go on to be a lawyer or a doctor, and I definitely would like to get into politics.
Politically speaking, you don't necessarily give away information that allows your enemy to get an upper hand. But at the same time you don't keep reality from the population.
We have come to the edge of the abyss and now it is time for a bold step forward. There is a political view that the tougher you are, the more credible you are.
Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices.
You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.
You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.
It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.
I've been a strong financial and political supporter of, first, President Bush Sr. when he was running for president, and even when he ran for president a time or two and failed.
I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.
I didn't really want to inject myself into anything political. A lot of people were asking me at the time about Jay and Conan, and I hate doing anything serious.
A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it by using it.
I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was a hard time.
At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.
There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.
Due to the political nature of film, partisan film making, especially where the subject is close to the film makers hart, tend to be the norm, rather than the exception.
Indeed it can be argued that to make a powerful film you must care about the subject, therefore powerful films tend to be both political and partisan in nature.
