I'm pretty much a documents reporter. I'm a public records geek.
The term 'triage' normally means deciding who gets attention first.
Subprime lending is growing faster in black areas than in white areas.
My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.
To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.
I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
I never have been involved in politics.
I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.
The longer we were in it, the smaller it seemed to get.
I don't really view communism as a bad thing.
I wanted passionately to be a priest.
What I wanted to do was see if we couldn't balance the budget.
One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.
There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.
Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.
