Peter Capaldi Quotes

I thought you would have to be insane to go into politics.

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.

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

It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation.

Bill Clinton was relentless, eloquent and truly charming.

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'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.

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

And so I am launched again upon the faithless wave of politics.

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

You have to have a sense of ego and of purpose to go into politics.

Anyone who gets to the top in politics is a control freak.

Honestly, the egos and the quest and thirst for power is very prevalent in Washington.

Politicians are already exaggerated. They're bigger than life in every way - their appetites, their ambitions, their personalities, their failings, their magnetism. In a sense, they're made for fiction.

Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.

Men are strange about politics. I have been around the world twice and I know politicians from many cultures. They are all alike. As long as they find themselves in the middle of it, they say they are sorry that all their time is taken up by politics. But as soon as they have lost and are out - oh, how terrible for them!

David Cameron has a lot of credibility and influence.

I know that Donald Trump is a smart man.

I think we can do better with our politicians. I think I'd make a good one, because I like people.

I'm not into political gamesmanship.

Politics are the same old thing. We elect people, we put them in office, and guess what they do? They sell us out. They sell us down the river, and we pay for it.

I thought I was going to go into politics, but that became disheartening. You see that a lot of stuff doesn't get done, people walk around all self-important, and it's just depressing.

My friends tell me that I have the wrong temperament for politics.

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