Quotes About Politics

A politician's speech can't do what a movie or a cultural event like a song or piece of music can.

Every politician goes through a lean patch during which they go back to their main area of expertise. Some return to business, some practice law, and I... have come back to cinema.

My father was a politician and I had no contacts in the music industry, but I could still do some good work because I was passionate enough and dedicated towards music.

In the old days I'd like to have been a politician, when I think the world was more idealistic. When I was young I did a lot of campaigning.

Gaslighting only goes so far. This is a lesson many a politician has learned the hard way.

Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.

We get the politicians we deserve and the environment we deserve.

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

Career politicians manufacture hogwash.

Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.

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.

Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected.

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

The bureaucracy always goes with the way politicians go.

I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.

Democracy is too important to be left to politicians.

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.

As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.

Politicians never say never to anything.

Politicians are better liars than writers.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores.

We have to save ourselves from ourselves. We have to minimize the effect our own politicians can have on our society. We have to get some rules from the outside.

I'm a big believer that we get the politicians we deserve.

My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.