There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

Our democracy our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act if it weren't more women would do it.

I think up until the point when we started in the business which was in the early '70s most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

Political correctness? In my humor I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life yeah I guess so. I guess some do political humor some do topical humor but the ones that I like the ones that are appealing to me were guys who were just talking to you about their life.

Down the road I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on and humor.

I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly over time gain in political significance.

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.