As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?
Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.
My cartoons haven't been about the politics of the day or about the personalities; I'm more interested in campaigning about the issues.
I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
We're also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.
It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.
China-Pakistan relationship is indeed special because it transcends the changes of the times and politics and represents a fine example of friendly state-to-state interactions.
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
You know, the cynicism that is in the politics, it is not for my soul. It makes me - out of me, an extremely bitter, cynical person that I hate to see in the mirror, really.
I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.
Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth.
In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn't happening anymore.
The Democrats can engage in the most reprehensible, mean-spirited, vile, vicious verbal attacks known in politics, and they get praised for it.
You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
'Feed' is about zombies and politics and blogging. It's about how George Romero actually saved the world! It's 'Night Of The Living Dead' meets 'The West Wing.'
I don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns I have that fall into politics are human concerns.
Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.
There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.
I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
For the record, I believe that women and their doctors should have access to oral contraception when desired by the patient and medically appropriate.
I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.
