In politics, you’ve got to have a fallback in our line of work because your career can be over in an instant. Not that I would make much money playing a harmonica.
I’m not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths – grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.
The creative tension with spirituality vs. practicality in the world of politics is a vital conversation.
I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.
Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There’s just too much money.
The single-payer Medicare for All proposal is not only bad policy, but it’s bad politics. It’s bad politics for a very simple reason: More than half the country has private insurance and most of them like it.
Women are routinely demeaned, dismissed, discouraged and assaulted. Too many women’s careers are stymied or ended because of harassment and abuse. In politics, where I have worked much of my adult life, this behavior is rampant.
First of all, I think it’s odd that people who cover politics wouldn’t have any political views.
All politics to me – Indian or white – is an illusion preventing us from being authentic because we’re communicating through something that isn’t real to us.
If you’re trying to talk about public issues and politics and showcase it in a positive, different way, I think people like the idea.
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
I certainly wasn’t a fan of Thatcher’s politics. People liked to label us as children of Thatcher. What nonsense. The real children of Thatcher came in the 1990s, and had no interest in politics. The Oasis, Britpop scene.
We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that’s so striking is the whole area of politics.
Finality is not the language of politics.
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
Politics with me isn’t theater. It’s performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.
When I came into politics, I remember reading these scorecards of my performance, and I would routinely have these comments about not being assertive enough.
I like politics. I have an opinion. I like politics because it’s fun.
I obviously grew up with politics and have always been interested in ways in which people can get involved with it and be stimulated by it.
The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody’s interest.
A politician is a person with whose politics you don’t agree; if you agree with him he’s a statesman.
Sometimes I get slammed because I work at Fox and I am black. People are like, ‘How could you work there? Who are you?’ People really want to know what are your politics personally. Some of them, not everybody.
Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don’t understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn’t a business.
Most politicians come into politics because they want to make a difference; we just have different ideas how to do it.
