I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.
I have a huge political interest. I just wish I had the courage to come into politics in India.
I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
Before I went to work for 'Playboy,' I planned to apply to Yale to get a public policy master's. I felt drawn to go into politics. Even before that, my dream was to wind up either in the Senate or on the Supreme Court. I had big dreams as a little girl.
Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.
It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.
If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.
A desire to rescue secular America from fallen grace has driven conservative evangelicals at least since the 1970s, when Jerry Falwell formed the Moral Majority as a vehicle for conservative Christians to muscle their way into national politics.
The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Politics and more politics - that's how you work towards the building of agreements.
The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.
I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
Always, since our birth, we've insisted on another way of doing politics. Now, we had the chance to do it without arms, but without stopping being Zapatistas; that's why we keep the masks on.
I am a person that when I go in the street, everybody knows me and goes: 'Oh, you are entering politics.' I want to do something positive for the future. It doesn't mean to become a leader of a party.
We need to reaffirm that politics is not merely compatible with economic progress and development in the 21st century, but essential to it.
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.
So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that's fine because I'm making that deal with you, but just mention the movie along the way, OK?
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.
Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress.
I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don't talk about that, that itself is a political thing.
It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.
A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and should rise above politics, which, in fact, good poetry has never done.
When I was in politics, I always got accused of image-making and trying to make them something they weren't. Truth was - and nobody ever discovered it, although I was in that business for twenty years - what I was trying to do was to get them to be themselves.
In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth.
Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls 'make up' and politics calls 'character' - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture.
It is one of the little known facts about modern Scottish politics that it is not quite as cut-throat as people think it is.
There is no room for politics in the Commerce Department.
Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.
Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
