Armando Iannucci Quotes

I've truly tried to be apolitical.

I actually think it's very important that the Navy SEAL community stay out of politics.

I think when something is apolitical and it gets politicised, then it's incredibly disappointing.

Political doesn't necessarily mean you have an agenda.

I am publicly apolitical.

When I went to the all-Ireland final - Kerry against Dublin - I couldn't get away for an hour and a half with people coming up and wishing me all the best. Not one of them said, 'Martin, when did you leave the IRA?' But every one of them knew I was in the IRA at one stage.

Are people like Tom Cruise in touch with their public? I doubt it. Footballers are more like the rock stars of yester-year: they are box office.

If you'll see on my social media, I'm never going to get political. I do think there's something about entertainers where it's nice where you just get entertainment.

It is a fine line to be this PG superstar and also a role model and a bad guy and playing off our personality.

My husband respects what Naidu has done for the state, but the progress of both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana is a matter of great pride for him. Just because he is seen with Naidu, it doesn't make him a political figure.

I don't want to be identified with any political party.

We don't ever want to be this political band. We're just a bunch of dudes.

As many have said before me, artists are creative people who can't be dragged into the politics of nations. I have always made a concerted effort to maintain this standard for myself.

We have a strong tradition in our country of senior leaders being apolitical, nonpartisan.

My family was entirely political, all the time, on the left. The opposite of that is not to be political on the right. It's trying not to be - politics is not everything. There's life other than politics. Politics intrudes.

I'm not a political guy at all, not even a little bit.

We are fundamentally politically agnostic and an apolitical organization.

I have been apolitical all my life.

I stay as far away from politics as possible, or any controversy.

I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions.

What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will come and get you. It's not that you shouldn't be neutral. It's that you won't be able to stay neutral.

People have been accusing me of that ever since I got involved in politics. Some would just like to stick a pin through me like insect researchers do a dried butterfly and then say: Look, there's the banker who doesn't like people. If that were the case, I would not be here. I am not arrogant to the French - I am determined.

I think that being liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, noncomitted to a cause but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it's a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen.

I've never joined any political party and have no plans to do so. I'm fully independent.

I think that whenever a Jew has any kind of notoriety, good or bad, the Jews find it to be good.