I decided that instead of making jokes about politics, I need to take part in it, and therefore, I can't make jokes and participate.
Copy Quote View & ShareThere are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy based on values. This polarized view - you are either a realist or devoted to norms and values - may be just fine in academic debate, but it is a disaster for American foreign policy. American values are universal.
Copy Quote View & SharePolitics is never about the people. It's about money. And wars. And how many heads you can step on and bodies you can step over. And I'm just not that kind of person.
Copy Quote View & ShareOne lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.
Copy Quote View & SharePolitics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.
Copy Quote View & ShareActual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics.
Copy Quote View & ShareSaying that the Palestinian people aren't really a people - that's not a zany thing to say. That's a psychotic thing to say in the midst of all of the politics we live through on a daily basis.
Copy Quote View & ShareWe need to get away from the politics of grievance and towards the politics of opportunity.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history, musicology, comparative literature, English, linguistics, and other disciplines.
Copy Quote View & ShareBut when I entered politics, I found that this was the space that could be used for making lives of people better.
Copy Quote View & ShareI learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don't talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble.
Copy Quote View & ShareIn politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.
Copy Quote View & ShareAs human beings you cannot be apolitical, the way we frame a character is telling our politics.
Copy Quote View & ShareI'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live.
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