Political Avoidance Quotes

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

In 2012 President Obama didn't go anywhere near African-American communities. Why? Because unemployment was so high there, he didn't want to address it.

I don't care if people like Trump or hate him, if they voted for him or not; people just want to have a good time. They don't want to hear about immigration or whatever on a record or at a show.

The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

For the longest time in Denmark I didn't want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.

Fortunately, I don't talk about politics on stage.

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

I will never join politics under any circumstances.

As the Democrats get revved up at their convention in Boston, President Bush is fighting back the only way he knows how: by going on vacation! Ah, it's nice to take a rest, replenish your supply of smirks. The vacation was expected, because Bush traditionally takes a month off every summer to relax and avoid reading National Security Warnings.

I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics.

I get involved in the political, but I don't bring it to the stage because that's not my style.

You know, I'm just not going to get into American politics.

Politics was never in our blood and in our family... I will never return to it.

I'm very happy that Paul Ryan has decided to treat Donald Trump like a Zika mosquito: avoid contact, or you will be infected.

The Conservative Party tries to avoid important but controversial issues of concern to Conservatives and Canadians in general. It is afraid to articulate any coherent philosophy to support its positions.

I don't want to be close to politics.

... it's better to be in session than go home and face the voters.

The Bush administration has operated on an entirely different concept of power that relies on minimal deliberation, unilateral action and legalistic defense. This approach largely eschews politics: the need to explain, to justify, to convince, to get people on board, to compromise.

If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.

Euphemisms, vague terminology or calls for discussions with Turkey to get at the truth are just some of the dodges Congress and the administration have used to avoid Turkish discomfort with its Ottoman past.

I resolved to try to steer clear of politics. That wasn't easy.

People have come to me for my opinion since 'October Baby.' But, hey, look, I'm an actor who is very fortunate to be in a movie that's making wonderful noise, and hopefully helping parents and children to be a little closer. Leave me alone. I'm not talking about politics. I'm just trying to have a conversation with my own kids.

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

There are many who would much prefer that the word 'climate' never be mentioned and that the issue be eliminated from our national conversation.