You look at the pillars of the state: politics, the media, police, lawyers - they've all got their formal role, and then nestling above that is that power elite who are networked in through soft, social links, that are actually running the show. Why ...
I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.
Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.
I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.
Barack Obama has brought glamour back to American politics - not the faux glamour-by-association of campaigning with movie stars or sailing with the Kennedys, but the real thing. The candidate himself is glamorous. Audiences project onto him the pers...
I know politics; I know the media.
I don't follow politics much.
Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.
The world is governed by opinion.
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.
