I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost. I don't really need to do that, and I thought if I could do something for sport in Scotland, that would be really fulfilling.
Interviewing politicians and movie stars, you know what you'll get. I like the people-stories better.
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.
I look forward to the day when there are more women politicians accepted in their own right and not as 'women politicians.'
You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades, because elected leaders fail to deliver.
Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.
Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.
The curious thing is Americans don't mind individual mandates when they come in the form of payroll taxes to buy mandatory public insurance. In fact, that's the system we call Social Security and Medicare, and both are so popular politicians dare not touch them.
I think there's a couple of things going on. One is that Trump's relationship with his base is not the traditional relationship of a politician and the people who elected him, and the constituency, which is a relationship of some accountability, right? The idea is that the politicians are working for the people. They're public servants.
I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true.
Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.
I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.
The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.
I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.
One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.
I don't trust politicians. I think that by the time they've made it, with the concessions they've had to make in that position, I don't believe they still have the beliefs they had at the root.
Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.
Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.
Politicians do not enter into wars lightly. It is usually the military themselves who are keener to become involved.
I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.
Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.
A lot of politicians, not surprisingly, hire consultants to help them with their nonverbals, presence, generally how they come across.
Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.
Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
Politicians said that with our cheap labour, we could be competitive in the world. Nothing could be further from the truth. We were the most uncompetitive country with that cheap labour.
With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral.
I don't have business with any politicians.
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. 'How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?' Sometimes the sieve gets so clogged by political taboos that no new ideas pass through.
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.
We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.
I think Barack Obama is one of the most exciting politicians to come along in a long time.
Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
We cannot collect enough taxes to catch up with spending. Do I know a solution? Not really. Do your politicians know a solution? Does our commander-in-chief offer a solution? Absolutely not.
