Sydney Pollack Quotes

Politics is show business for ugly people.

The news media more and more considered the politicians to be props in their entertainment shows.

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Politics is just show business for ugly people.

Politics are well past logic. It's entertainment.

Politics has become show biz.

Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.

You can almost hear people saying, 'We're going to make a movie about an election' and 'We're going to make a movie about a lobbyist.' You can hear the yawning start across the nation.

It is very true that D.C. often operates in the land of caricature.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.

Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

You know, I'm a comedian the same as Bill Maher and Jon Stewart. We all came up the same way. The three of us have interest in politics; I call us fundits, we're fundits! We're not pundits!

Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

Every year, the White House Correspondents' Dinner inspires two competing varieties of coverage: celebrity-obsessed fawning and angry tirades about how it represents everything twisted about our broken democracy. It doesn't, really.

The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.

Politics is a highly tribal business.

Our national politics has become a competition for images or between images, rather than between ideals.

[Politics in America is:] A chess tournament disguised as a circus.

Politics is the entertainment industry for ugly people!