I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.
If I wanted to write a bunch of comics about 50-year-olds sitting around having a conversation about politics, that would be realistic, but it'd be the dullest comic in the world.
The only intelligent way to discuss politics is on all fours.
I remember fancying myself a junior 'McCainiac' in 2000, though politics were rarely discussed in our household.
So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that's fine because I'm making that deal with you, but just mention the movie along the way, OK?
The only newspaper in our house when I was growing up was the Daily Mail, and we would never have dreamt of discussing politics around the dinner table. So my involvement in politics came about through activism.
People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.
I ask people who they vote for sometimes. I think it is just trying to get to know somebody.
I am not comfortable discussing politics publicly; I am very comfortable talking about my friendships with people who happen to be in politics.
The most frequent way that I will communicate with him Obamacis when we're traveling. We talk about what's in the news, and I hear him talking about issues that are important to him.
Contrary to what everyone thinks, in my family, we didn't talk about politics at home.
I tried to explain in 'The Nine of Us' how we grew up with politics. At meals we talked about what was in the newspaper. We talked politics non-stop! Campaigning for our brothers was a part of our lives.
Sitting around our kitchen table from a very early age on, we talked politics, and we talked policy. Never once can I ever remember my dad saying, 'Go away, this is an adult conversation.'
I've always told my children that Americans will tell you pretty much anything, but that convention dictates that we don't like to talk money or politics.
The locker room I don't think is a huge place for guys to really, you know, talk politics.
