Caroline Lucas Quotes

People always related to President Bush, but in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War, his numbers collapsed because people didn't feel like he handled those properly. Obama is the inverse. He was elected because he was an extraordinary guy, but the fact that he isn't ordinary has turned out to be politically damaging.

Obama's very unpopular. I don't need a poll to tell me that.

When you're a sports figure and people dislike you, they're going to look for the negatives.

Very few people go into politics to be reviled.

No one who's a politician wants to be associated with anything that is unpopular.

Let’s face it. Everybody considers you to be a loser.

They can say that you are a liar, a cheat, a crackpot, and a licentious old man, and most politicians don't care. But if they say you can't win, you're through.

There is no person in this town who is doing particularly well at the moment when it comes to the opinions of the American people.

Politicians today are not highly regarded... there seem to be people young and old and in the middle saying that they have never heard such wretched debates.

The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.

I've never been universally loved from the beginning.

People treat you one way when you're champion, but when you're not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.

The press portrayed me as a joke and a clown.

The whole country doesn't like politicians, and young people like them even less.

One of the main functions of politicians - and journalists - is to simplify the world for us.

Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.

Everybody appears to look down on Bieber. No person able to write a grammatical sentence about Justin Bieber actually thinks him worthy of the sentence.

It's hard to be a national punch line unless lots of voters have soured on you.

Having wallowed in a delightful orgy of anti-French sentiment, having deplored and applauded the villains themselves, having relished the foibles of bankers, railwaymen, diplomats, and police, the public was now ready to see its faith restored in the basic soundness of banks, railroads, government, and police.

When I had the job of police commissioner, 20 years ago, I was more sensitive, more cognizant of complaints and concerned about public opinion. I've learned to do what I think is the right thing. That lessens the impact of criticism. You get used to a pressurized environment and expect it every day.

Despite romantic fantasies about caring candidates who learn of America in donut shops, most politicians rely on media to teach them what concerns the average person.

But if that was really true, why in the name of all that is holy would anyone have ever liked Nikki in the first place? I was becoming more and more convinced she was a cross between Heidi Montag and Hitler.

Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git.

Once you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you.

One poll showed that Americans have a higher opinion of witches, the IRS and hemorrhoids than Congress