I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late... →
Barney Frank
This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and... →
Thomas Frank
There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when... →
Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again.
The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the... →
Al Franken
The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into... →
Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After... →
Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people.... →
I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
Politics are not my arena. Music is.
Aretha Franklin