Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, "I'm here, pay attention to me
I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.
The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies.
I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect.
There can be no unified southeastern Europe without Yugoslavia, and everything else is a continuation of political blackmail with which the Serb people and Yugoslavia were faced all these years.
Political success in Athens seemed to depend on having a party, and there seemed now to be no party with whom an honorable man could connect himself.
The Palestinian people do not beg the world for a state, and the state can't be created through decisions and initiatives. States liberate their land first and then the political body can be established.
We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe.
I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political news is consumed.
Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.
The internet has become a political space. I think that is one of the most important developments in the past decade.
The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.
One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.
Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.
'W.' is not necessarily a political film, but it was sort of a contrasting reality for me to get into George W. Bush as a character because of how I felt about his administration before I started making the film.
The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.
The shortcoming of purely political discourse between Christians and Jews arises from the fact that it is largely built upon the perception of a common enemy.
Corporations are economic entities or structures, and yet they're allowed to fund political candidates, and when those candidates are elected, guess who gets in the door first? It's corporations.
The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General.
Now that the there is a path for the people of Puerto Rico to express their self-determination on Puerto Rico's political status, there are some who seek to block that path.
