Sydney Pollack Quotes

Politics is just show business for ugly people.

There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.

Politics. Where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be a candidate themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

Politics is an impressionistic art form.

Washington is politics! Somehow if people have political objectives, then those objectives are automatically disqualified? If that's the case, the Democrats have no business being legitimized about anything because everything they do is political.

I can't get inside the head of a politician today.

But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.

Anything's possible in politics.

When you enter the realm of politics, you don't enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song.

Modern political speechwriting is not a high-minded pursuit for brilliant talents.

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

Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.

Politics, as an end in itself, is a poor business to be in.

What Mr. [Robert F.] Kennedy says lacks only the merit of being true ... Bobby Kennedy can jump off the capital dome or whatever else he has to do to get the attention of the American people.

Politics is power, and communications is power,

When I hear things like 'unpatriotic,' I just chalk it up to a lot of political rhetoric.

While the Obama White House is completely incompetent and weak, they know how to spin everyday Americans.

Politics is far more complex and difficult than other professions, as it involves takeover of your own personal life.

One of the things I hate about politicians, I shouldn't say I hate things, but one of the things I hate about politics is people who repeat the same talking point over and over and over again.

Generally speaking, politicians are an odd bunch. They seem to have very thick skins and genuinely don't care what people think. And charm is a very important part of the politician's armoury. I try to resist that kind of charm.

I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work! I don't really have the personality for that.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

I think the truth is always interesting, but with politicians, you don't get to see much of that.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

I'm not in the business of politics.