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I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.
Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.
I'm more patriotic than I am political - I appreciate politics but I'm not quite too sure if that's a road I'm willing to go down.
It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate.
Of the influence of Mr. Mill's personal character on those who were his political associates, it is difficult to speak too warmly.
Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.
No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.
I am opposed to term limits because if we did not have seasoned professionals, we would not have the good government that we have.
I'm glad to know that we do have political leaders that believe in God, and that has been true from the days of George Washington.
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
Our own GOP machine, the establishment, they who would assemble the political landscape, they're attacking their own front-runner.
Health care, it's going to be political. It's going to be, let's say, the confluence of the politics and the messy implementation.
What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.
I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.
In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political.
That wall, embodied in the First Amendment, is perhaps America's most important contribution to political progress on this planet.
Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church...
Political reporters and political professionals rushed to judgment against Romney because we crave clear, unambiguous story lines.
Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.
In my view, [the trade deficit] will create political turmoil at some point...Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment.
Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.
I'm not a political guy. I've been a Democrat my whole life, but that didn't mean I went in and just pulled the Democratic ticket.
Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.
Being unapologetic about my body, my sexuality, my life's decisions is a political belief that, as a feminist, I strongly espouse.
To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.
As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing
Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well.
A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!
It is incredibly presumptive for somebody who has not yet earned his party's nomination to start speculating about vice presidents.
Mexican leadership has been doing serious damage to the United States by out-negotiating our representatives and political leaders.
The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.
If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all.
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
I'd say that one area where my political views have remained unchanged is that, I am opposed to the government spying on everybody.
A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.
It is only in Washington where many still have a lingering animosity for the political parties. My friends, we need to get over it.
If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.
I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution.
Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his truths.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.
This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars — they would think the country has gone insane.