Mike D Quotes

It's always interesting to me to tell stories that come from difficult political climates.

I just look at what's going on in the world.

I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.

The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

The whole world has changed after September 11th.

I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is not a funny place.

For me, it's more about being there, bearing witness to history, bearing witness to what's happening, what our country, the position our country is taking overseas. I want policy-makers to see the fruits of their decisions, basically, and to try and influence foreign policy.

As a human being, you can't not connect to the chaos that exists around the world on a day-to-day, or things that you've seen on the news just here domestically.

It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.

Culturally, politically, everywhere you look... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell.

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

Aside from my work, my interests lie in the arts and in world affairs.

The state of the world petrifies me as much as it does everyone else at the moment. Anyone who comes to my show expecting incisive political analysis will be deeply disappointed.

I want to start thinking about other people and the political climate. I can't sit here and write an album about myself. It just feels wrong.

At Yale, you can find someone passionate and enthusiastic and involved in just about any issue. For many of us, though, our school's prevailing progressive political atmosphere can make us complacent.

I want to help, and I wanna learn more about what's going on in the world. I just wanna be alert.

I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an escape from it.

I'm thinking about American votes and American - all Americans, black or white have to be concerned about what's happening in the world.

The growth of violent extremism is partly a consequence of how the developed world has become complacent and defensive about its own greatness and ambition.

I think most Muslims are incredibly upset with the state of America's foreign policy today and the state of the world.

I was raised and I was going to school in the suburbs of Paris. And so we, I didn't really go to the riots, to the barricade. I was too young, actually. Rather young.

Day by day, it's worse for my people, especially for the women. And that's why, because of all of these main reasons, we say this is the mockery of democracy and mockery of War on Terror.

Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you can't understand what is going on.

We live very wonderful, privileged lives, and we're very lucky and fortunate, but it doesn't mean we stop caring. With Brexit and everything, and then Donald Trump running for president, of course, we were like, "Is this really happening? No, of course not, it's never gonna happen." It's impossible to not affected by the craziness of the world.