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The Politician

Payton has known since childhood that he's going to be president. First he'll have to navigate the most treacherous political landscape: high school.

(69 total)

Seasons

Characters

Ryan Murphy (69)Ian Brennan (69)Brad Falchuk (69)Ben Platt (23)Payton Hobart (23)Georgina Hobart (11)Gwyneth Paltrow (11)Lucy Boynton (9)Julia Schlaepfer (6)Astrid Sloan (6)

“That fire defines you.”

— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, James Sullivan, Theo Germaine, imdb.com

Tagged: Fire, Define, Spark, Heat

“Look guys, I'm really grateful that you still believe in me. The problem is, I don't.”

— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, Payton Hobart, Ben Platt, imdb.com

Tagged: grateful, Belief, Problem, Lack of Confidence

“Maybe we can have an affair or something.”

— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, Alice Charles, Julia Schlaepfer, imdb.com

Tagged: affair, Suggestion, suggest

“Sex has nothing to do with loyalty.”

— Ian Brennan, Brad Falchuk, Ryan Murphy, Alice Charles, Julia Schlaepfer, imdb.com

Tagged: Loyalty, Sex, loyal

“You will never love him the way you love me.”

— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, Payton Hobart, Ben Platt, imdb.com

Tagged: Love, Compare, In love

“My ambition just poisoned every decision.”

— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, Payton Hobart, Ben Platt, imdb.com

Tagged: Ambition, poisoned, decision, Introspection

“I don't care about what fancy school you went to or how many boys you didn't bang while you were there.”

— Ian Brennan, Brad Falchuk, Ryan Murphy, Hadassah Gold, Bette Midler, imdb.com

Tagged: Fancy School, boys, Sex, Sassy

“It hurt more to talk than not to.”

— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, Payton Hobart, Ben Platt, imdb.com

Tagged: hurt, emotions, talking, Feeling

“This emptiness is a gift. You finally know what it's like to lose.”

— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, Georgina Hobart, Gwyneth Paltrow, imdb.com

Tagged: Empty, Gift, Loss, Feelings

“Life isn't a train. It's a shit tornado full of gold.”

— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, Georgina Hobart, Gwyneth Paltrow, imdb.com

Tagged: Life, train, Metaphor Examples, gold

“Your life going off the rails is the best thing that could happen to you.”

— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, Georgina Hobart, Gwyneth Paltrow, imdb.com

Tagged: Life, Going off the Rails, Best Thing

“Money just makes the important stuff easy, so that we try to make the unimportant stuff hard just to make it feel like we're not coasting, but I have been and I don't want to coast anymore.”

— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, Astrid Sloan, Lucy Boynton, imdb.com

Tagged: Money, Easy, Problems, Coasting

“The happiest I've been in my life was when I was in New York with nothing.”

— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, Astrid Sloan, Lucy Boynton, imdb.com

Tagged: Happy, Life, New York

“It's salacious and bizarre and it'll follow you forever.”

— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, James Sullivan, Theo Germaine, imdb.com

Tagged: Salacious, bizarre, Follow You Forever , Reputation, History

“So, I might not be a good person, but I wanted to do good things.”

— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, Payton Hobart, Ben Platt, imdb.com

Tagged: Good Person, help, helpful, do good things

“I try to do good things, right? But I'm not a good person. That's my flaw. I'm ambitious. I am political. I'm conniving.”

— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, Payton Hobart, Ben Platt, imdb.com

Tagged: Good Person, Ambition, Conniving , Politics

“I help people because it serves me.”

— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, Payton Hobart, Ben Platt, imdb.com

Tagged: Serves , help, Helping Others

“I feel everything. There just wasn't enough positive emotion to balance me out.”

— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, River Barkley, David Corenswet, imdb.com

Tagged: Everything, Feelings, positive, Emotion, Balance

“I'll find my way no matter what.”

— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, Payton Hobart, Ben Platt, imdb.com

Tagged: way, Find My Way, Journey

“I'm only who I want to be when I'm in relation to you.”

— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, Georgina Hobart, Gwyneth Paltrow, imdb.com

Tagged: Love, Relation, Person You Want To Be