Backgrounds Quote by Chris Patten

I think politics have gotten vulgar and we comedically portray that.

— Will Ferrell

There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical.

— Zephyr Teachout

What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that practically I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all.

— Henry David Thoreau

Being under the political spotlight is far different than anything I'd experienced before. Every word is a critical word. Sometimes you really aren't allowed…

— Linda McMahon

I think politics come out of psychology.

— Bruce Springsteen

Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence and support of those who are mentally vulgar, but because of the…

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

Politics is ultimately not that complicated a profession; it's where the mediocre distinguish themselves.

— Michael Wolff

Just politics in general is a disgusting thing.

— Amber Mark

Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?

— Alan Sokal

Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.

— Kingsley Amis

Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.

— Michael Heseltine

I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'

— George Clooney