90 percent of the funding came from Thailand.

Incredible.

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

Politics, man. Politics.

This is political!

That is to say, it's a big change, but it isn't avoidable.

He loves talking about politics.

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

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

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

On the political level the response was the nationalist and fundamentalist revolt of the Maccabees.

It's a very ambitious goal but we believe it can be achieved with political will.

In America, political will is a renewable resource.

Iran s Political Clerics

He is an energetic politician.

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

Politically active. Animals First.

What that will do is avoid the problem I was talking about earlier, where currently we have political parties presenting democracy as merely a political choice in those societies alongside other choices such as military rule and theocracy.

Developing political awareness takes time.

It's much less usual for a person to be politically aware than to be politically active.

Mr. White is a liberal politician.

And that doesn't produce a productive politics.

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.

But to get to that stage, where democracy builds the fabric of society and the political choices within that fabric, but are certainly not theocratic and military dictatorship i.e. you're voting in a democracy, in an existing democracy, and that democracy is not merely one of the choices at the ballot box.

We have work to do. And we can mobilize resources and political will.

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

When the design emerged it was surprisingly simple and straightforward.

I want to love and celebrate fiction for what it is, not as a means to an end.

Democracy is one form of government.

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.

TJ It has to be companies. It has to be civil society.

Due to some political problems that are being resolved...

It would be politically untenable.

Better than a philandering, dishonest old politician.

Today we have globalized the markets but we have not globalized our democratic institutions.

The existential and social and political impact an artist has on his nation's development of cultural identity is very important.

If we are not to able to ask skeptical questions to interrogate those who tell us that something is true to be skeptical of those in authority.

And this is the difficulty that I face.

How will we treat our most vulnerable?

Statically, China is a one party system, authoritarian there's no question about it.

Some questions tell you more about a person than others.

And that was only the beginning.