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Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, ‘How can you make a movie during an election that’s about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people’s lives?’ To which my response was, ‘Well, I hope so.’
In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.
Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.
For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.
It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear…’
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.
I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.
People like passion in politics.