I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics.
I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics.
For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.
The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.
Unfortunately, 'climate' has become a dirty word - obviously in politics, but even to some degree in my world, in venture capital. People hesitate if they see something that's purported to be green. That's not a reason to invest for many people.
If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit.
I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.
The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
There are no friends at cards or world politics.
Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.
But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.
I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.
It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'
I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.
Politics is gut; commercials are gut.
The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you're working for a political party, is that everyone's a messenger.
What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.
I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
