Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.
A 527 doesn't have a wife. It doesn't have a brother-in-law who knows a lot about politics, or a union president who calls and doesn't like the color of the suit, or bimbo eruptions. It's the perfect candidate, because it has no personal characterist...
Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.
Politics feels, on what I have seen of it, like joining a tribe, and a lot of it is about unspoken ways of behaving.
I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.
Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their fair share?
Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.
Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.
I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.
I never have been involved in politics.
People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.
I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.
The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.
When I was young, I flirted with the idea of a career in journalism on one hand and politics on the other.
In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
