Yoweri Museveni Quotes

Politician is a term of reproach.

You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. They are addicts, and they are guilty and they do lie and cheat and steal — like all junkies.

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

You can't blame anyone for being cynical about politicians.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Most people have a healthy disrespect for politicians.

I would as soon go to live in a pen in a stockyard as into American politics

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a good ministry; for which reason Courts are so overrun with politics.

Politics - I still think it's a bunch of liars and a bunch of self-interest. It's not about the people: it's about themselves and their rise to power. They are voting on things based on whether they will have the support of the people when they vote next time. They don't have the balls to say, 'I believe in this. I don't care what happens.'

When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.

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 hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.

I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.

My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.

I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Over the years, our political system has degenerated to the extent that it is difficult for anyone to make any headway yet keep his hands clean.

The most unlovely political character in our history since Aaron Burr.

I have the disease called politics.

Politicians have no politics.

This is not politics. This is garbage. And we are disgusted by it. To those who are departed who sought in some, quote, clever, unquote way, to tarnish the reputation of Tom Foley, I say, good riddance.

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

I wouldn't trust [Richard] Nixon from here to that phone.

In friendships, you expect total trust; in business you expect some dishonesty. But in politics, you not only expect distortion as a way of life but accept it with pleasure.