I don't talk about my politics. I am registered as an independent.
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.
I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I've just decided to be non-political and very, very pro-soldier.
The hardest thing to do in politics is campaign as someone you aren't. People can spot an imposter from a mile away.
The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.
Instead of going into politics, I decided to go into comedy, which is the second most daunting career path for a woman.
In politics, they play games. In Hollywood, they play games. I think that, overall, everybody is trying to do whatever it takes to get ahead.
I definitely learned about the inner workings of campaigns enough to know that I'm glad that I'm not in politics.
I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
The secret of getting things done is to act!
In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.
Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.
The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behaviour and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society.
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
I have an ethics background. It doesn't mean you're perfect. But I tried to set an entirely different bar for politics in D.C. that's based on ethics and first principles and political philosophy, and not this constant bickering of, 'Are you Right or...
I like Ronald Reagan, who didn't play crass politics, and he just articulated and delivered on broad themes that were needed. Free markets meant free markets. Deregulation. Lower tax rates. Strong national defense. And he was credible and believable.
