Quotes About Perception

Half of Japan still couldn't tell the difference between crime and politics.

At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.

The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.

I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me.

Being a superpower is like being a Santa Claus that everyone hates.

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.

Having a hearing is educational. Having a hearing with television cameras is useful. Having a hearing with two rows of television cameras is Heaven.

The American people are fed up...with political posturing.' True, but also an example of political posturing.

John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante

It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?

Part of what's changed in politics is social media and how people are receiving information.

I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that.

Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money. I thought that was Tip O'Neill.

As for my personal politics, some people seem to think I'm some kind of archlibertarian, a hyper-conservative.

People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled 'politics'.

I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.

Symbols mean a lot in politics. They indicate a will and create new realities.

Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

I don't think that Hollywood will have much to do with changing politics. Hollywood usually reflects things.

It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.

I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf.

The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger.

For some reason I get advertised when I travel as a political comedian, which I'm not. Sometimes I talk about it and sometimes I don't.

In politics, when you're explaining, you're losing.