Michael Kelly Quotes

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

I would as soon go to live in a pen in a stockyard as into American politics

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

There's not a self-regulating group of nice fair-playing people in politics. There are a lot of dodgy people in politics.

There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.

They were both obnoxious, drunk with their power …. they were the hatchet men of the Nixon administration, the killers, the psychopaths in residence

The age of virtuous politics is past.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a good ministry; for which reason Courts are so overrun with politics.

I'm setting the record straight - Chuck Schumer is nothing but a political animal who symbolizes all that's wrong with American politics.

Hillary Clinton used the State Department to enrich their family at America's expense.

The average politician was crooked. That was my ambition, to be a crooked politician. I'd see them in these restaurants, and they'd all hold these conferences. I'd see politicians who were supposed to be on opposite sides of issues all together at one table.

It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.

Politics makes me sick.

It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

Whether it's 'Veep' or 'Homeland' or 'The West Wing' - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.

The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game.

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

Over the years, our political system has degenerated to the extent that it is difficult for anyone to make any headway yet keep his hands clean.

I love political dramas. I love good story-telling.

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.