Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.
Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
If you are worried about what people think of you, you should go into politics. Real actors take chances.
In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.
I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.
Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world.
President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.
A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.
The American people deserve truthfulness, not more political campaigning. The American people deserve a responsible government that seeks to address their needs, not more ideological dogma.
Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results.
The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.
In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.
In honor of Surgeon General Koop's legacy, we should ensure that the position of surgeon general is protected from political interference, funded appropriately and nominated from the ranks of career public health professionals who merit consideration...
Other people can write grown-up, political plays about the troubles in the world. My plays deal with magic and hope.
I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.
For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.
From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.
