The politicians are all useless individuals. Nobody is reducing the problems in the U.S. or Europe, just putting on a Band-Aid and postponing the problems endlessly.
I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.
I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.
Some politicians were probably too lax about the rise of an extremist, fundamentalist, radical ideology.
Politicians take something out of context to create problems.
I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of black children and other groups. I believe that many politicians think this has been the way it has always been, so what's the problem?
I've gone from, you know, being too close to politicians, to being too close to entertainers, and people's father that I'm not.
Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.
'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media.
Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.
I think celebrity endorsements hurt politicians.
No doubt, corporate CEOs who lie to their shareholders and politicians who lie to their public know and believe intellectually that lying is immoral. Why then do they lie? They lie to others because they first lie to themselves.
When people blanket a whole class of people with statements, I just think that is unfair to everybody. I could do the same thing about media. I can do the same thing about politicians or lawyers, and they're just never accurate.
There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.
I think people are tired of politicians trying to poke each other in the eye.
Too many talented and supremely calculating politicians, including Nixon and Clinton, have destroyed their careers, or come close, by acting in ways that were obviously against their own interests.
Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops.
In 2010, there were 57 lawyers, zero manufacturers, and way too many career politicians in the United States Senate.
Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.
Ronald Reagan knew audiences. It was a key element of his political genius. One of the things at which brilliant politicians are better than mediocre ones is smelling new public concerns over the horizon before they are picked up by polls - before the public even knows to call them 'issues' at all.
The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax.
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.
Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.
I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.
You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.
It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.
I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.
As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions of dollars for television ads, it will be corrupt. If we leave it up to the politicians to clean up lobbying and finance reform, nothing is going to change.
Too often, we rely on other people - whether it be politicians or institutions - to effect change.
Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win.
Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.
People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.
It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.
