Any cook should be able to run the country.
In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time.
That is simple my friend. Because politics is more complicated than physics.
Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
Don’t confuse me with all that. Just tell me how to vote to help your farmers.
I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.
If anything is naive and lightweight, it's the traditional political conversation.
"Government," says Swift, "is a plain thing, and fitted to the capacity of many heads."
America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive.
They say, oh, let’s have multiparty politics. Let’s have different parties change and be in charge of the Government. Is it that simple? You vote in a Division Three government, not a Division One government, and the whole economy will just subside within three, four years. Finished.
Radical politics tend to be simple minded.
Reality is complex, but the politicians and the public demand simple answers.
I'm not a politician because I'm an artist. Politicians have a very easy answer for a very complicated question. I have a very complicated question for what you consider very easy situations.
One of the failures of our politics is that it has been simplistic.
I like my politicians and my judges and my lawyers to be simple. I think if you worry about where your hemline is you're really not concentrating on the world crisis.
