“I think any time you run for office you should ask two sets of questions. One: What does the office need? What does the next occupant of that office have to do? And then you ask the question: Who am I, and what do I bring to the table that’s different from the others? And then you look for a match.…”— Pete Buttigieg, newyorker.com
“People in political office tend to get extremely nervous about fashion because they feel it's frivolous.”— Anna Wintour, theguardian.com
“You know what happens when a politician takes Viagra? He gets taller.”— John O'Brien, Jonathan L. Davis, Uncle Jesse Duke, Willie Nelson, imdb.com
“If you were a boxer at the downtown gymnasium at 14th Street and Mike Tyson walked in, your face would have the same look as these foreign leaders had when Clinton entered the room. He is the world’s greatest politician.”— Jeffrey Epstein, nymag.com
“The idea that growth will remedy our debts is so addictive for politicians.”— Michael Burry, nymag.com
“Diana: It's not politics to talk about eye operations. Madge Kehoe: It is if the eyes belong to a politician.”— Nick Hornby, Madge Kehoe, Julie Walters, imdb.com
“Universe, what's this thing in the sky? As a politician, pointing fingers make me very nervous.”— Rebecca Sugar, Raven Molisee, Paul Villeco, Mayor Bill Dewey (voice), Joel Hodgson, imdb.com
“We spend 90% of our lives begging for money and horing for votes in order to hold onto jobs that are 90% begging for money and horing for votes.”— Garry Trudeau, Senator Gil John Biggs, John Goodman, imdb.com
“You don’t have to agree with your politicians to be a patriot.”— Kieran Fitzgerald, Oliver Stone, Corbin O'Brian, Rhys Ifans, imdb.com
“I know that you all want me to say that I’ll change, that this fucking business will change, but I’ve learnt something in the last few days. Those bastards. Those bastards are worse than us. Politicians, fucking judges, lords and ladies. They’re worse than us, and they will never admit us to their p…”— Steven Knight, Tommy Shelby, Cillian Murphy, imdb.com
“I’m so tired of masks. I’m so tired of smiling when there is no reason to smile and being accustomed to saying I’m doing good when someone asks. I’m tired of politicians putting up fronts to get our votes and then leaving us to fend for ourselves as soon as they get elected.”— Lauren Hogg, twitter.com
“He’s one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.”— Harry S Truman, amazon.com
“People who run for office and are defeated aren’t rejected in the usual sense of the word. They’re just defeated because they couldn’t get enough votes that one time. It doesn’t mean the public despises them. It’s a preference for somebody else for that particular office at that particular moment, t…”— Harry S Truman, amazon.com
“If those men are ignorant, why should they have a share in so important a thing as Government? They may know all about beer, and wool, and iron — but perhaps they can only judge what is good for themselves, not what is best for the whole country, with all its rich and poor. I do not think that only…”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“There's certainly too much beer represented in the House — I admit that. But, after all, trade is the great moving-spring of national prosperity — and it would hardly be fair to refuse seats to the very men who help to keep the country going.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“We can no longer look to traditional leadership for any hope of salvation. We have of late experienced one diplomatic and political congress after another; has any one of these brought the solution any nearer?”— Fridtjof Nansen, nobelprize.org
“Where is the remedy to be sought? At the hands of politicians? They may mean well enough, many of them at any rate, but politics and new political programs are no longer of service to the world—the world has had only too many of them. In the final analysis, the struggle of the politician amounts to…”— Fridtjof Nansen, nobelprize.org
“Today we have a system where only those individuals with the means of capital and who can both pay the exorbitant application fee and fund a political campaign can vie for the presidency. It would not surprise any close observer to discover that in this inane system, the same unsavory characters who…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com