Rakhi Sawant Quotes

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

I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.

I mostly like politicians. Very few of them are evil, although quite a lot are delusional.

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.

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

We need clean candidates. Party A puts up a candidate and he is terribly corrupt. Party B puts up a candidate who is even more corrupt. There is no choice. So I have the Clean Candidate Campaign.

He [previous President Uribe] has criticized this government for unveiling a lot of corruption: he thinks it is an attack on his government. But I have said no, it is not an attack on his government, it is an attack on the corrupt people, and I will continue to do that.

I don't think that political history is full of a whole lot of tremendously honest people. I have never found any fault about that as far as Mr. Trump is concerned in my relationship with him.

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.

Some Democrats deserve to be criticized.

Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.

To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime.

This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Democrats don't react the same way Republicans do, because they are not forced to react the same way Republicans are forced to react. They get to be as corrupt as, basically, they want, and just ignore it.

What is true is that if we do not change the culture of Washington, D.C., the United States of America will cease.

I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.

I don't get involved in politics. I think that it is a waste of time and money because very often a politician cannot do much, and if you give him money, you embarrass him, so he can't do anything.

The problem with modern politics is everybody is doing sound bite stuff. In my stump speech, I give 20 minutes on why I think we're off track. And I think people do really want to engage in a serious high-level discussion on how to get the country back on track because people care about their own country.

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

Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers should lead the Democratic Party. They are the only Democrats with any convictions.

I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.

I'm not going to reduce the choices of Canadians at the ballot box by backroom deals or secret arrangements. I think that's a cause for cynicism more than anything else.