One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.
Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable.
I’ve always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you’re doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.
The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues.
I don’t want to join politics as I am an artist, and let me remain so.
To every woman out there who thinks that they might like to get involved in politics or stand for parliament, I say go for it. If I can do it, so can you.
There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.
We need to take politics out of health care. Congress will cave to pretty much any special interest on the subject.
The rise of civic society is not a negation of politics, but marks an opportunity for the involvement of the people.
But I’m not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I’m interested in is emotions.
The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don’t have to ask anyone or play politics. You don’t have to wait for the reviews.
You know you have a problem in American politics when they’re making ‘House of Cards’ look normal.
Politics is downstream from culture.
Accessibility and openness are good politics but bad security.
I’m not very big on politics. I’m a comedian and not that smart. I don’t have the mind capacity for it.
When people were selling the politics of fear and division and destruction, we were talking about hope. We were talking about the politics of joy.
I know I’m not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I’m famous.
For me, personally, it has been humbling since I became First Minister to speak to women and girls and have them tell me how much it means to them to have a woman in the top job in politics in Scotland.
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
There’s no permanent, fixed class consciousness. You can’t work out immediately what people think and what politics they have simply by looking at their socio-economic position.
Politics and football don’t mix.
For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
My work has gotten more political over time, but once you start exploring food, you find you’re up against economics and politics and psychology and anthropology, all of these different things you have to deal with.
The Corbynista brand of politics representing metropolitan, middle class, pro-open border values is far removed from millions of Labour voters, especially those who voted Leave in the referendum.
For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.
