In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn't happening anymore.
Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.
American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.
When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.
If China's expansion into Africa and Russia's into Latin America and the former Soviet Union are any indication, Silicon Valley's ability to expand globally will be severely limited, if only because Beijing and Moscow have no qualms about blending politics and business.
I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.
It's my personal opinion, and I firmly believe, that it's important that I keep sports and politics separate.
Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
You know you have a problem in American politics when they're making 'House of Cards' look normal.
I took a 19th-century Russian novel class in college and have been smitten with Russian literature ever since. Writers like Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Grossman, and Solzhenitsyn tackle the great questions of morality, politics, love, and death.
In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing out Lehman were bad, the politics of bailing out A.I.G. would have been worse. And the systemic risk that a failure of A.I.G. posed was orders of magnitude greater than Lehman's collapse.
It's not okay to lie about people and particularly not okay to hurl the worst imaginable names at people just because you think you might not like their politics.
I think politics are a very personal thing.
You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
I remember fancying myself a junior 'McCainiac' in 2000, though politics were rarely discussed in our household.
There is no gambling like politics.
Mixing humor and politics is something that works.
Ted Kennedy's inspiration will loom large over our politics for years to come, uplift us in the healthcare fight, and help to achieve his dream of liberty and justice for all.
What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness of worldly values and seeing through suburban mentality and normal community standards so that they can find some much-needed relief for their wilting souls.
I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me.
I came from an intellectual Parisian family. My father was a watchmaker; my mother was a housewife. We discussed politics, art, sculpture - never fashion.
I don't talk about politics much. I don't care for it.
The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.
In both the world of fashion and politics, what's required to succeed is passion, dedication, and vision.
There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding.
I think politics come out of psychology.
The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues.
I loved covering presidential politics - not so much because of the candidates but because of the people it allowed me to talk to.
A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.
'The Means' is about power. I have access to political insiders who helped me write a portrait of the real day-to-day in politics, which turned out to be crazier than Wall Street.
Politics is not the nicest business, but there are still times when people do the right thing.
Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known.
I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.
Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.
I've studied documentarians extensively to come up with my own in-house style. I'm a student of Michael Moore's films, of Eisenstein, Riefenstahl. Leave the politics aside, you have to learn from those past masters on how they were trying to communicate their ideas.
