Ewan McGregor Quotes

I don't believe there are heroes or saviours in politics.

Politics for me is when I feel a personal engagement between people: I don't trust politicians.

I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.

We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.

Am I a liberal or conservative? I'm neither. Like most Americans, I find politics very frustrating. Like most Americans, I'd like to hear from politicians the facts. That is what drives me.

I have no love for American politics..

A lot of young people don't have a lot of faith in politicians. You can't depend on what they say. They talk in circles. They don't speak the kind of language that has truth to them. I'm speaking differently.

I want to do something to change the mistrust towards politicians.

Unlike the general public, I rather like most politicians.

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.

Nixon was the beginning of people not trusting politics.

I am cynical about politicians. My experience of politicians has been thoroughly negative. I have found that politicians are people that can not be taken at face value. There are very few politicians I have been impressed with.

I don't miss politics.

Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

People don't believe that any politician is any different from any other one.

How easy it is for a politician to forget that he is not usually saying anything at all.

A politician is an arse upon which every one has sat except a man.

Especially among journalists, politics is not a pursuit that's held in high esteem. We tend to be cynical about it - but I actually believe in democracy.

I think politicians misjudge our intelligence. We can, and do, see through them. But I quite enjoy watching political programmes because they get the heart going.

I think anyone who serves in public office should have a little bit of contempt for government in their heart.

I have a sustained distrust for all politicians, even those with whom I agree on more issues than not.

As Americans, we have to be honest and ask ourselves a question: Do we really want to tone down politics? I always hear a resounding 'yes,' and I think most people mean that genuinely. But do our practices ever change?

I'm undereducated in politics, and I don't like to involve myself in them because they have dark spaces that I do not want to touch.

Regardless of how people love to deride politicians, democracy is not an easy gig. My decisions, views and heartfelt principles are dismissed by so many as careerist, opportunist or attention-seeking.