Politicians, it's in their job description to just lie, every day.
Sarah Palin kept talking and talking, and the more she talks, the less compelling she can be. People say, "She's a very good politician, very deft at what she does," and whatever. And I hear that sometimes and go, "I don't know much about this stuff, but I would say no. " Because the really good politician expands the audience, not contracts it. She may be getting a very vocal crowd, but it's a very specific group.
You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.
I just said, you can't lie and hold up a Bible. And you can't do that. You just can't do that. It's not appropriate. And I was tough on him on that, because things were said abut me that were not true. And Marco Rubio actually said that he lied. And I have never seen a politician say to another politician that he lied.
Hillary Clinton is the most corrupt politician ever to seek the office of the presidency.
In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.
There will be more coming afterwards if we don't re-empower politicians to get organized and work together.
I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.
I don't care about politicians.
The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.
My mother was a politician in my formative years.
If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.
I think one of the luxuries of being a filmmaker is that you can ask questions but not necessarily have to answer them. Certainly, if I was a politician I'd need to come up with some answers.
A politician thinks of the next election; a statement of the next generation. A politician looks for the success of his party; a statesman for that of his country. The statesman wishes to steer, while the politician is satisfied to drift.
Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.
Politicians will always spend every penny of tax raised and whatever else they can get away with.
Fear is the politicians dance partner.
Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live.
No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.
Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.