Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

Politics is not a healthy lifestyle.

Politics scared the crap out of me because I didn't grow up in a family where we talked about anything, really, except, 'Pass the peas, and do this.'... We didn't really have political discussions at the dinner table. I didn't learn how to watch or listen to politics.

I think about politics, so it would be inauthentic not to talk about it.

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

I'm not a great deep political thinker.

I would like to never ever think about any political issues.

I have liberal friends. They are misguided, they are wrong. I disagree with them. I don't want them to vote. I want them to go on vacation in November.

Politics was sort of a way of life in our family.

A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it.

It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.

A lot of my traditional audience does not appreciate my foray into politics.

I never have been involved in politics.

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

I never think about politics more than 18 hours a day.

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don’t talk politics.

I like politics. I have an opinion. I like politics because it's fun.

My kids have been around politics since they were little.

I grew up with an infestation of politics. I'm just nuts about it. It's our form of gladiators in the arena, only they are not in quite as good a shape.

I knew who Buckley and Vidal were growing up, being a political junkie.

I grew up in a family that was always talking about politics.

It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.

I am such a political person.

I'm obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run.

If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots.

It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.