Ben Fogle Quotes

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

Politics is an ugly and thankless role.

Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.

Politics is a blood sport.

I am doing my best to prevent the corporations and the Republican Party Machine making me the … candidate for the vice presidency in order to get rid of me here as governor.

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

I was not meant for the job or the spotlight of public office in Washington. Here ruining people is considered a sport … Politics is a blood sport.

Politics—where they pat you on the back so they'll know where to stick the knife.

Life is not easy in politics.

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.

There's not a self-regulating group of nice fair-playing people in politics. There are a lot of dodgy people in politics.

No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game.

Anything's possible in politics.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Jason McDermott's political career, however bogus, appears to have had an early and promising start.

Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.

There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

Despite an occasional nagging misgiving, I quickly found myself prepared to use the serrated edge of the political knife in the Johnson White House.

They were both obnoxious, drunk with their power …. they were the hatchet men of the Nixon administration, the killers, the psychopaths in residence

The hazards of politics come not from campaigns and elections, as might be supposed, but rather from the nature of the creature that engages in politics. Ambition, love, jealousy, hate and the many emotions and reactions man is heir to frequently affect the course of nation and world more than principles or circumstances or events.

Politics is having one foot in a fire and using the other foot to keep off the people who are trying to push you the rest of the way in.