Politics Criticism Quotes

At a programme in Kannur, I was asked who I wanted to be in my next birth. I said I don't believe in rebirth but if we should imagine it, I wished to be born in a world without religion or politicians.

I hate fear politics.

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

Politics, as a body, has failed the people.

I'm always impressed by your disdain for Congress. That's one of the reasons you have such good relations with us.

I wouldn't have the slightest interest in running for public office. I'd rather make jokes about politicians than become one of them.

I am a longstanding critic of British foreign policy - and an opponent of the authoritarian, quasi-imperialist, racist, homophobic politics of Putin.

Parliamentarianism is nauseating to anyone who has ever seen it at close range.

Donald Trump says he wants to run America like he's running his business? God help us.

In terms of talking about what our politics has become, it now seems as if Barack Obama is starting to stand outside of it a little bit and critique what our politics has become. And I think he sees himself as a useful critic that way saying that it's not only become dishonest, he said, but now we have a selective sorting of the facts and our politics has become self-defeating.

Russians aren't perfect. Their politics are messed up, and they keep going through self-defeating economic cycles. But I have a lot of respect for Russia, and a lot of love for Russians.

The word "politics" is derived from the word "poly", meaning "many", and the word "ticks", meaning "blood sucking parasites".

Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.

Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.

I make no pretence at being well-versed in politics - it is all too often about personalities and emotion - but I do know a thing or two about our constitution, as I once trained to be a lawyer. Even a first-year law student learns that an overriding principle is that parliament is sovereign.

Politics is a rough and tumble business, and yet there seems to be an effort by the commentariat to sanitise American politics to some type of high-level Victorian debating society.

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

Most politicians are vain. Many of them are stupid.

That's the one thing I probably don't like about politics - the focus on the individual. To me, it's more important to get it done, whether I get the credit for it or not.

Government isn't a religion. It shouldn't be treated as such. It's not God; it's humans, fallible people, feathering their nests most of the time.

I just don't think our best are in politics. I think these guys are inept.

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

I've met so many politicians I absolutely despise.

I think it's a slightly crazy time actually, it's very difficult to satirise because each of politicians is in their own way enacting a commentary on the world of politics anyway. To then comment on them just feels like adding another layer. I find it very difficult to do jokes about current politics because for me it's all about... I actually genuinely want people to be involved properly, you know? I mean, the number of people who don't vote... Frightening, really.

Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.