When you read about the real history of where feminism comes from, it came from a very political point of view. I don't believe in bringing any politics to an idea like feminism. I love the idea that women should be celebrated, but I also believe men should be, too. We need both - yin and yang.
Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.
I had no intention of getting back into politics. I was teaching at Bowdoin and happily retired from politics.
Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.
I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.
Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.
It's that evil twin part of me that always comes out at the absolute wrong political moment, like a demon possessing my soul; it exhibits itself as an arrogance or disdain or obnoxiousness or meanness or anger or pettiness - all traits that are lethal in politics.
American politics is always an open competition.
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.
If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity.
When it comes to politics, it's nice to be mired with Sarah Palin. But I'm Paul Gosar. I'm my own person.
Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
I teach students that what people say about failure in politics is mostly wrong. People always told me, 'They'll praise you on your way up and kick you on your way down.' That wasn't my experience. I can't walk down the street in Toronto without someone coming up and saying hello.
People like to do politics with me, and they like to do business.
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.
Politics is a blood sport.
We're all looking for an authentic way to be engaged in the community, engaged in politics, engaged in national discussion - and so, we're clunky. We're all clunky. But it's better than not doing it.
They politics like ours profess, the greater prey upon the less.
In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
I'm not a person who's interested in getting involved with politics just to get involved with them, and I don't need to.
Living in France while the Falklands War was going on, I felt a profound sense of shame and betrayal, just as I did by the war in Iraq. People have asked why I don't talk about that directly in my plays. Well, politics needs to be articulated in many different ways.
Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.
But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.
Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.
