I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.
Today, parliaments are more important because of the need of legitimacy, of the popular legitimacy, of public opinion legitimacy of politics. Parliaments are, at the end of the day, the only true legitimacy.
I don't think I can remember a moment in my life where people didn't discuss politics. People discuss politics at the table.
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.
Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.
As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.
Politics for me started in violence.
The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you're working for a political party, is that everyone's a messenger.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
I like to be asked about the projects I'm working on. I like to be asked about the books I'm reading, the things I'm interested in, what's exciting me right now, or even politics. Sometimes that's fun.
First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.
I am probably not alone in sensing above me the huge corporations and monstrous banks, science, politics and technologies, spy satellites and stock markets, military systems and massive wealth - forces and dynamics I don't understand or can hardly imagine.
It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.
Politics should not be the least heart-filled thing we do, it should be the most heart-filled thing we do.
What we ought not do is play politics with those who've been afflicted by disasters. This should not be controversial. Stop playing politics, do the right thing for the country and let's make sure we're not making politics with disaster relief.
I think that any woman who had a conversation with me and had an opportunity to truly understand my life story wouldn't view it through a critical lens. There are people, of course, in the world of politics, who look for things to be critical about. But those people are already against you.
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
You have to have a sense of humor about all of it - the Emmys and politics and everything.
Politics is a people business. I like people.
The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.
There is a paradox in politics that what it takes to get elected is not necessarily what it takes to govern, and my feeling is that trying to control things too much feels icky to me.
Broadway is such a diverse community. Everybody knows how I believe, and everyone believes, and it's not a big deal. But in Hollywood, if you talk about politics - especially if you're a Republican - or spirituality, it's just not something people want to hear about.
A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me.
People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.
I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.
I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more.
Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.
I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.
I don't really dabble into the politics of MMA too much.
I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.
I'm pretty sure it was President Bill Clinton who brought me back into politics and following it.
Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left.
I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
