Wanda Sykes Quotes

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn out. If you, as an artist, are just focused inward, you're going to eventually be irrelevant.

You can't do anything that's not political in this time and age.

Just because I am paying attention to politics and culture doesn't mean that I should be talking about the health-care bill, talking about the minutiae.

Politics has always been personal for me. You know, growing up, I was in a very politically conscious household. We engaged with intellectuals and artists and academics from around the world who were thinking critically about politics and the intersection of politics and public life.

I am a single mother of two sons and politics demands 100 per cent commitment.

It's easy to get swept up in the day to day ridiculous things that are in the news. They're not meaningless, they're legitimate and worth being engaged with. But it's easy to get overwhelmed and swept up and forget what real life feels like.

It's good to learn and be engaged and listen to people, see what's going on. But that's not the motivator: if I was a political person, I'd have gone into politics.

You're never really out of politics.

I've always been political.

There are certainly young people who are very aware of what's going on in this country, and we want to treat that with respect. We don't want to patronize our audience by just talking about the frivolousness. It's a balance.

I've always watched the political shows.

I'm a mom. I work. I have a house to clean, things to organize. We all have certain similar needs, and I address them.

I go to a lot of events morning, noon and night when I'm not in Washington.

I don't really pay attention to the news or stuff like that or what's going on in politics.

I knew who Buckley and Vidal were growing up, being a political junkie.

In 2013 and 2014, I traveled to Ukraine three times with Senator John McCain.

I have no interest in politics. I have been offered to join politics, but I am not even interested in it even one per cent.

I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.

You need to be able to nurture yourself in order to be a good mother, good at your job, good at servicing your community. I really believe women can do it all, but they can't do it all at the expense of their health, their sleep, and their sense of well-being.

If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.

I have always been politically active and vaguely dissatisfied with the state of news, but I wasn't sure why.

These days in particular it seems not only unavoidable but even irresponsible to not acknowledge politics in some way.

When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I'd run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as loud as I could. So when I see all these rock stars up there talking politics, it makes me sick... If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.