Steven Seagal Quotes

I don't think that political history is full of a whole lot of tremendously honest people. I have never found any fault about that as far as Mr. Trump is concerned in my relationship with him.

I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

The Philippines is a country in which a man of morals can't be president, in which a politician who hasn't been linked to any wrongdoing isn't assumed to be honest, but merely better at hiding his corruption.

I'm not saying that all politicians are awful. I don't know any of them well enough to say whether they're awful or not. But almost every day, you find out something about them that's appalling. Maybe we shouldn't be surprised any longer.

The usually travelled route for a great many Members of the last Congress was an exceedingly crooked one, even for politicians.

You can't adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

There's too many people that paint with a broad brush that we're all corrupt, we're all amoral. … And having these kinds of things happen, whether it's a Republican or Democratic senator — we certainly have had plenty of Democratic scandals in the past — we need people who are in office who will hold themselves to a little higher standard.

We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.

This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

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.

It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.

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.

Nixon was the beginning of people not trusting politics.

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests - 'lobbies' they call them in the States.

I feel sorry for many politicians... we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.

I am cynical about politicians. My experience of politicians has been thoroughly negative. I have found that politicians are people that can not be taken at face value. There are very few politicians I have been impressed with.

We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.

Politics is dirty, and I don't like to talk about dirty things... My conscience is clear.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Politician is a term of reproach.

Voters are naturally suspicious of politicians.

Many Senators are scared to death that the people back home are going to find out what they’ve been doing in Washington.

I believe it [the Republican Party] is today the most corrupt and debauched political party that ever existed.

It's hard to make corruption a partisan issue because voters are cynical about everybody in politics.