#politic

We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#funny #never #only #political #strictly

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation. ↗

— Ben Edwards

#active #activists #change #doers #doing

While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker. ↗

— Ben Edwards

#campaign #climate #convictions #culture #current

I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#anybody #between #contemplate #could #difference

Political movements always belong to the young. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#belong #movements #political #young

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#came #close #distortions #experience #first

If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#america #guilty #i #life #misgivings

Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political. ↗

— Milos Forman

#andy #any #apolitical #because #decision

Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#appealing #beyond #desire #expectations #history

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#aloof #chuck #considers #defense #fools