Quotes About Politics

I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.

My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.

I was not a politician.

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything.

I think anybody who wants to be president has to be a politician, but I would like to find somebody who's coming from a loving place instead of a political place.

What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.

I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.

Look, Orrin Hatch is not a bad guy. But he is an old guy, and he's a lifer politician.

I don't think I have the demeanor to be a politician. I'm used to making decisions and to a certain extent being in charge.

To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.

This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.

I've never met a politician I haven't wanted to walk away from, and I've yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth.

I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.

Having been a journalist for almost 20 years and then becoming a politician has definitely been an interesting and enriching experience for me.

It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.

I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things.

Perhaps it's time to stop analyzing Sarah Palin as a politician. Maybe, in her own muddled way, she is at last owning up to the fact that she has been miscast. You don't need politics anymore once you've discovered that the alchemy of celebrity has turned you into a 24-carat phenomenon.

I'm not a politician or political animal.

I don't usually make political comments, because I am a businessman, not a politician.

It's interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.

No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.

I'm not interested in showing a politician falling over; it's about the issue and making people think differently about that.

I'm not a politician. I'm a businessperson.