Political Quotes

Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.

The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that’s what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.

The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual – all of that fermenting together.

Bashar Assad has said many things. We will see in the near term whether he is serious about a political process.

In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire).

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

There is division with people in our lives, as well as political division and religious division.

At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.

When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.

When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.