Helen Thomas Quotes

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.

I have a sustained distrust for all politicians, even those with whom I agree on more issues than not.

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.

The fundamental challenge is that people like me simply do not trust the federal government any longer.

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.

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.

It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

I was a guy who trusted the government. Now, I don't trust a damn thing they do.

Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career.

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.

I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.

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

I've thought Cheney was scary for a long time. Now I know I was right to be nervous.

The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about.

That settled Abraham Lincoln with me. I was thoroughly satisfied that no such man ought to be President; but I could not yet conceive it possible that such a monster would be the choice of a majority of the people for President.

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

I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them.

The electorate suspects and distrusts men of superb intellect …

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

Most people have a healthy disrespect for politicians.

I never met a politician that I couldn’t take a poke at.

If you are a humble person, politics is not for you. Politics is brutal, cruel and vicious and is incompatible with Christianity.

It has now become the doctrine of a large class of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

People don't trust party leaders.

I hate all politicians equally.