A part of me is a liberal New Yorker involved in politics and certain attitudes about movies. I kind of lost my indie credibility over 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith.' I know I haven't lost it. I just have to go make an independent movie. I just have to do it. ...
Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.
The movies were custard compared to politics.
You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
When I do a political movie, I do a political movie.
I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.
I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come o...
I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.
I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week.
I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.
There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.
Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.
