As Americans, we have to be honest and ask ourselves a question: Do we really want to tone down politics? I always hear a resounding ‘yes,’ and I think most people mean that genuinely. But do our practices ever change?
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
Any new technology, if it’s used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that’s more a question of the politics of the technology.
We want to make politics sort of entertaining. If it is entertaining, people are going to be interested in it, and if they are interested in it, they might think more about it and maybe involve themselves in some way down the line.
A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we’re unbiased in our reporting. That’s one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.
Politics should not interfere with sports. And sports should impact politics.
For me, I feed off everything, from bad politics to religion to relationships – I mean, just life in general. And, yeah, I’m not necessarily happy with the state of things. And I think that I get to use music as a release.
Dialogue is the essence of parliamentary politics.
Most Pakistani politics is conducted within a narrow spectrum. Politicians spend much time debating the best ways to fight India, or take Kashmir, or dominate Afghanistan, or punish the United States for its real and imagined sins.
Politics is a contact sport.
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
I don’t get involved in politics. I think that it is a waste of time and money because very often a politician cannot do much, and if you give him money, you embarrass him, so he can’t do anything.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.
The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
When you bring God into politics, very strange things happen.
The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics.
Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.
Good thing we’ve still got politics in Texas – finest form of free entertainment ever invented.
I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that’s usually what I focus on.
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
