People have come to me for my opinion since 'October Baby.' But, hey, look, I'm an actor who is very fortunate to be in a movie that's making wonderful noise, and hopefully helping parents and children to be a little closer. Leave me alone. I'm not talking about politics. I'm just trying to have a conversation with my own kids.
But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.
One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.
I'm grateful for the ascendancy of women in business and politics, which may yet advance the humanity of those callings.
The protest years were over, not just for me but for a whole generation, and in music, just like in politics, many of the greatest talents were dead or in exile, and their place was filled by third-rate imitators.
Politics is in my blood. I'd love to be involved in 2008, maybe even '06.
Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.
Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.
Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.
Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.
We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.
Nothing is irreparable in politics.
I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth.
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers.
The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.
Young people have so much more power than they tend to think to be able to affect politics. And if people will organize and get involved and go out and knock on doors and hand out leaflets and make a change, then they can determine the future.
I hate it when politics play too large part in the sport.
I never went on TV one time during the campaign. Not once. You know why? Because politics is war. General Sherman would never have gone on TV to tell everyone his plans. I'd never tip my hand to the other side.
In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.
In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.
With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.
The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.
We should not underestimate that: the Chinese people's ignorance. Thousands of years of despotism had been such a poison that their understanding of modern politics is even inferior to that of the black slaves and other immigrants.
Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Sports and politics don't mix.
We need to start talking, to each other, about the issues that matter most. Otherwise, we are just pawns in the game of politics.
I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics.
If I went into politics, it's because I grew up in a political atmosphere.
The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
