Politics
Politically, Martin has complex views. He once referred to a Senator as a "bleeding heart soft on crime" and backed a conservative candidate for Congress whom Frasier referred to as "Himmler without the whimsy." He has shown concern and joked about global warming. He also has shown sympathy with former Democratic Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. In one episode, Niles asks Martin for his gun, but Martin replies that he doesn't believe that civilians should be armed, seeming to imply that he supports gun control (though this may be due at least in part to the fact that he was shot by an armed robber and that his son has poor hand-eye coordination). Despite being disturbed at the idea of Frasier or Niles being homosexual, he is willing to accept it, and even pretends to be homosexual once to avoid an aggressive woman.
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.”
—Ben C. Bradlee (b. 1921)
“The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“The real grounds of difference upon important political questions no longer correspond with party lines.... Politics is no longer the topic of this country. Its important questions are settled... Great minds hereafter are to be employed on other matters.... Government no longer has its ancient importance.... The people’s progress, progress of every sort, no longer depends on government. But enough of politics. Henceforth I am out more than ever.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)