90 percent of the funding came from Thailand.

Highly convenient.

A fortuitous development.

Maybe it's just as well.

A certain amount of certainty gives the sense of a non zero outcome.

It can give credit to sound decision making, adding momentum to success.

Politics, man. Politics.

This is political!

Everything went smoothly.

That's good to know.

He loves talking about politics.

It's a political piece, and it's...

But certainly, recently, we've had some real tangible things about where society's changing.

That could work to our advantage, theoretically.

That makes you the best hope for the Column.

And that doesn't produce a productive politics.

Tom doesn't like talking about politics.

I mean, if that's okay with you.

There's practical problems.

You seem to describe a political leadership that is kind of unprepared and a prisoner of the whims of the financial markets, and that scene in Brussels that you describe, to me, as a citizen, is terrifying.

We can put this defeat to political use.

Then we say, Ah, well it must be a financial problem.

Iran s Political Clerics

He is an energetic politician.

Politically active. Animals First.

At this moment in time, the youth in the Arab world are much more wiser and capable of creating the change than the old including the political and cultural and ideological old regimes.

And I think the implications here are profound, whether it's for science, for commerce, for government, or perhaps most of all, for us as individuals.

And this is the difficulty that I face.

Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political.

Are we really prepared to say that we're powerless in the face of such carnage, that the politics are too hard?

Political assassination wasn't in the contract.

You're risking your political capital.

But publicity like this is never a bad thing for us.

So the third commandment I want to leave here tonight is, a city of the future has to be socially integrated.

Mr. White is a liberal politician.

Because they had no idea.

This is what we need to do with heart disease now.

Bullies use violence in three ways.

Now the teacher says it's too political and we can't put it on.

Yeah, you just stay right there. This is gonna be good.

I'll have to make a call there. It'll save time.

Incredible.

(Applause)

Still, I know you are taking a great political risk.

politically, there's nothing going on now anyway.