John Quincy Adams Quotes

Created by writer Beau Willimon, who's worked on several political campaigns, 'House of Cards' cannily exploits the current widespread cynicism for our politics, catering to a public scorn that's warranted and also glib in the sort of cheap pox-on-both-houses way that means not having to pay attention.

Anything's possible in politics.

Politics is an ugly and thankless role.

Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.

You never know what'll happen in politics.

You don't have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

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.

What can equal the caprices of politics?

Some politicians denounce government in order to capture the government and then they turn around and expand the government.

Politics has been very good to me. Politics can become, and often is, very brutal

Bull permeates everything.... American people think politics and politicians are full of baloney.

I wouldn't want to go into mainstream, Downing Street politics, though - it's just too cut-throat. I've got quite thin skin.

I tend to avoid the shows that focus on politics, just to get a break from it all, i tried watching the first couple episodes of 'House of Cards,' but I thought it was way over the top. Members of Congress aren't anything like Frank Underwood. Most of us are far less interesting.

Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

I'm disenchanted with Communism and most other things. I'm cynical but not a cynic. I'm cynical about TV, Congress, and commercial peanut butter.

I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.

Ah, political physics. Someone wins an election and, poof, they are a candidate for vice president. Ridiculous.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.

In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.