Carla Bley Quotes

I don't miss politics.

It is true what is said in Washington - 'No matter how cynical you get, it's never enough to catch up.'

The thing that worries me more than anything else is losing faith in the capacity of politics to change things. I don't mean scepticism, criticism, querying, but I do mean cynicism.

What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter.

I wish I could renounce politics.

I have a certain sympathy with politicians having lived with one. I've seen how no matter how earnest or driven or energetic they are, it's still difficult to change things. I have been encouraged to go into politics, but I don't think I could make a contribution, it suits me better to be sniping from the sidelines.

Nothing is off-limits. There's just some things I cannot crack. Politics I can't do. When I start to talk about it, I just get really angry and super sincere. I have never found a way to craft all of that absurdity into funny.

I don't do politics. I just like to laugh.

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

The idea of politics is just so uninteresting to me - I've never paid much attention to it. I don't believe things can really change. It doesn't matter who's president. Nothing really gets resolved. I don't know. I guess that's not the right attitude to take.

I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it.

I had to make a movie about politics sometime in my career and it was impossible to do it seriously.

I'm not disillusioned with Clinton. I never had any illusions.

Americans expect too much of politics.

Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it.

I've never been inspired by a politician in France, and I think a lot of my own generation think that way.

The government, the state, they're just objects of jokes rather than serious consideration. I can't possibly take them seriously.

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you.