Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.
The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt. Everest of American politics, becoming an historic first.
I don't think you should go into politics until you can stand on your own two feet economically, if possible, and you know enough about the world.
Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.
Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.
I - you know, I loved politics more as a younger man.
I've always been involved in politics, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I sold Kool-Aid for McGovern - I could always pick a winner.
I've been lucky enough in 'The West Wing' and 'Brothers & Sisters' to talk about the issues that are important to me with none of the awful mud-slinging or public scrutiny you have in politics.
What's gratifying about West Wing is that everybody told us that it couldn't be done - that the man or woman on the street didn't care about politics. But if you set things up correctly, people don't have a problem with it.
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.
One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from them. I figured, why? I mean, it's genuine depraved partisan politics insanity, genuine extremist radical ignoramuses on that network.
The Democrats can engage in the most reprehensible, mean-spirited, vile, vicious verbal attacks known in politics, and they get praised for it.
Taiwan politics certainly is colorful.
There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding.
I didn't grow up in politics.
Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
I need a break from politics, that's for sure. This is the hardest job in America.
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
