Quotes About Perspective

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.

If one candidate is appealing to your fears, and the other one's appealing to your hopes, you'd better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope!

I've come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.

If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.

Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.

I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.

If you read angry political blogs, substitute Obama with my daddy and you'll usually learn a lot about the author.

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

Especially being around young people, ... It helps put things in the proper perspective as you return back to the chaos of politics.

I'm an idealist without illusions.

To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly.

I don't sense an [Barack] Obama party. I think politics is transactional for him.

[The director] has to, I feel, be one step back, not only from cinema, but also from politics and all these issues in order to tell and depict the situation that spreads to people.

[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.

It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders.

in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is seen, and what is said is not necessarily what is heard.

I came to politics later in life so I bring a different life experience to it.

Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.