I never talk openly about my political beliefs.
Maybe unlike a lot of people who join the SNP today, I never had any expectation of a political career.
Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.
Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.
When I first ran for governor, the political class and party leaders opposed me with great vigor, and some even said if I won the primary they would never vote for me. But the voters had other ideas, and they are the only ones who count.
The counterculture has nothing to do with Dolce & Gabbana having a 'Hippy Summer' or something. Street kids, and kids who want to live in any sort of counter-cultural experience other than what's being presented by the mainstream media or political climate, or 'normal' cultural climate, are never going to look like that.
I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.
We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.
Anti-New Deal rhetoric has never disappeared from American political life.
I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.
The BJP has never considered its political opponents as enemies.
I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm.
There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.
I feel like we're in the era now where politics is pop culture. Everybody has an opinion that's politically based. We see what the Trump administration has done, and I've never seen my culture this engaged in the political process.
I haven't always been warmly welcomed for holding my conservative positions in Hollywood. Then again, I've never been very good at being politically correct either, on or off screen. So why start now?
People never think of themselves as choosing to be politically correct. They simply think in the way that they do.
I'm a take-no-prisoners type of comic, and I'm lucky because my fans get me and never have a problem with the politically incorrect themes of my act. But I am continually amazed by how a certain section of our society seems to be so freakin' sensitive about jokes.
I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.
There are so many things the people who take polls never get around to asking.
One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!
