Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.
I'm not worried by politics: I'm worried about the media.
Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out to get more grant money by exaggerating the threats.
If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.
You can't sell a book in America if you don't dump on Bush. That's the cheapest shot in the world. You cannot get an advance, and you can't sell a book because the publishers are all people who hate Bush and hate Republicans.
It's hard to talk about politics in a Hollywood world.
I felt that for 20 years, I was wooing the people of my country and asking them to like me as an actor, and when they liked me as an actor, I told them, 'Now, you like my politics.'
I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.
I've been very successful in business and I owe it all to politics.
Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history. Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and protean. That is why I used the word normative above, a term derived from statistics, simply meaning what most people do.
Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.
History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.
Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.
The idea of having to make constant reference to politics is anathema to my calling as a writer.
My politics would be, must be, have to be, completely separate from my judgment
Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what's going on in the world. And it's also important to state what we think. There's like this fear for their career, if they have anything intelligent to say about politics. And that's really messed up.
I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
Shaping the future is what drives me. Since I left politics, I'm very much interested in emerging markets.
I think Daily Kos is a really great example of where it's really worked in terms of putting the opinions of a larger group of people forward. And Kos has obviously had a huge impact on politics.
If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
I've never believed it's a fiction writer's job to create an exact replica of the past, a diorama the reader can step right into. But it is my responsibility to learn everything of the world I'm writing about, to become an expert in the politics and history that formed my characters' identities.
I'm not a Trump guy, but I do like what he's done with political speak. He's changed the conversation quite a bit. It's interesting to watch that happen.
To protect America's security, we are going to have to pull America's military out of the swamp of Washington politics.
If it's just politics that's running music, f - k that. I'm out of here! I can't think of anything more boring.
