Quotes About Perspective

I always needle a bit when people say I'm a champion of the Poles, because I've always had a very multinational view of Poland.

Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.

You can't say there is only one way of doing things, the police way of ensuring law and order.

After years of police work, officers often can't help but be influenced by the cynicism they feel.

The fact is that my mother is a cop and generally kids of cops are a little different from their parents - they tend to be quiet. In my case, I was never interested in joining the police force, because right from my childhood I have seen the challenges in a cop's life.

My mother's a police officer, so there was only so much trouble I could get myself into. But my father grew up on the other side.

I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.

Police officers see everything, and they experience everything, and they don't always act correctly.

We were raised in the black community not to trust the police, and I believe, in the white community, they were raised to actually be a policeman.

You can't have a democracy when people don't learn to put themselves in the shoes of another person, who can't think what their policies mean for others.

I tend to agree with many aspects of President Obama's policies.

I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.

You're a white South African, and right away you have to explain yourself. Occasionally, I get hassled until I explain my point of view. I have to make it clear that I don't live there anymore, and I don't approve of the brutal racial policies.

With George Bush's policies, I could make an argument for how they affect black people in a negative way. You know what I mean? But I wouldn't argue that he's a white supremacist.

All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know.

I am more connected to the world of the imagination, but you don't have to have polio to do that.

At different times my children went to Polish, British, and American schools, and they learned about 'the nation' in all of them.

The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are a few exceptions, but out of politeness I'm not going to mention them. If you don't have a few stinkers, you can't appreciate the good ones.

Everything isn't political.

I'm not a political comic.

And more and more, Joe Biden, from the Democrats' perspective, looks expendable. He's disposable. He is political picnic cutlery - if you will.

If you go into the mainstream with a female perspective that seems to resonate with a lot of people, you have a political agenda imposed on you: you are told that you are a feminist.

Of course, my own political beliefs inform the ideas I come up with.

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.