Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.
I have a very strong political outlook, and that is something I'd like to take more responsibility for in my life. I don't believe in utilising certain aspects of the power I have with celebrity to push that forward, but I would like to make some films that address some of those political issues.
Our political leaders have great responsibilities, but as with many situations in life, people often rise or fall to meet your expectations. Our responsibility as citizens is to expect our leaders to lead and to give them enough support so that they may do so.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.
The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law in the early part of his first administration.
The challenge is to open a new page in our political life and to take action so that everyone is able to find his or her place in France and in Europe.
Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
I have invested the best part of my adult political life in helping to try to build up this movement and I am far from perfect but I do think I am able, through the media, to deliver a good, simple, understandable message.
The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.
If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.
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.
The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
Stability and a prosperous life cannot be set off against a set of political rights and freedoms.
Political rights notwithstanding, 'freedom' rings awfully hollow when you're getting nickel-and-dimed to death in your everyday life.
I feel like how I live my life is my own political statement.
My life would have gone along perfectly well, politically speaking, if it hadn't been for girls.
I'm not particularly politically correct, so I tend to reflect what I think are the terrible realities of life, which I think are, generally speaking, conservative.
I could cut my leg of; I could cut my arm off. I could gouge my eye out - I'd still probably survive, but not very well, and that's what we're doing to the ocean. It's the life support system of this planet. We've been dumping in it, we've been polluting it, we've been destroying it for decades, and we're essentially maiming ourselves.
