Bernardo Bertolucci Quotes

I wish I could renounce politics.

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

I don't feel any warmth towards politics. I'm with the forever opposition party.

I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

I don't miss politics.

It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.

The people who voted for President Obama are just beginning to wake up to exactly what they brought in. The 'change' they envisioned is not the 'change' they have gotten.

I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it.

Change: In politics, the substitution of one disappointment for another.

Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it.

I thought I was going to go into politics, but that became disheartening. You see that a lot of stuff doesn't get done, people walk around all self-important, and it's just depressing.

Why did I desert Labour? Total bloody disillusionment. The party was a corpse. It had no ideology, it became detached, old, spineless and needed to go.

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

Voters seem to understand what a big waste of time trying to change Washington is.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.

The instinct of the Labour Party is if there's a problem, change the leader, then sit back, fold your arms and wait to be disappointed because they're sure it's not going to deliver.

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

Everyone I vote for never wins. Welcome to America.

It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

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