Quotes About Dirty Politicians

#1. I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals.

Steven Seagal

#2. I want to spend the night alone in a haunted mansion. I wouldn't say I'm sceptical because that word implies the truth is out there when there is no truth out there.

Aidan Turner

#3. Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes ... We're all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void.

Joss Whedon

#4. The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union.

Thomas Jefferson

#5. I was fortunate to work with Corigliano for a few years in the mid nineties. Meeting and working with him during those formative years was an important experience.

Michael Hersch

#6. I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#7. His breath hitched, and he regarded me hungrily. "You're playing with fire, you know that?"
"That's weird, considering you're an ice prin - " I didn't get any further, as Ash leaned in and kissed me.

Julie Kagawa

#8. I was first in my family to go to college.

Joe Biden

#9. Politics can be very mean and dirty. The things politicians say about each other, and what activists say, I had a brief glimpse of that for a couple of days. If I ever had any questions about whether I wanted to run for office, I now know the answer - I don't.

Matt Hasselbeck

#10. I don't even pretend we can occupy the Lib Dem holier-than-thou, hands-entirely-clean-and-entirely-empty-type stance. No, we are getting our hands dirty, and inevitably and totally understandably we are being accused of being just like any other politicians.

Nick Clegg

#11. The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.

Russell Baker

#12. When your child is seized by an idea with the zeal of a fundamentalist Bible salesman from Indiana, stand in his or her way at your own risk.

Marisha Pessl

#13. I always putted without a glove but I have no idea why - I saw others doing it and copied them.

Seve Ballesteros

#14. Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Ambrose Bierce

#15. Truth will never shine from a heart filled with corruption and lies.

Suzy Kassem

#16. In the politics of Jesus the world will be changed by non-coercive love or not at all. It's not the task of the church to change the world by legislative force. It's the task of the church to be the world changed by Christ. This is revolutionary in a way that conventional politics never can be.

Brian Zahnd

#17. What's distinctively shocking about Machiavelli is that he didn't care. He believed not only that politicians must do evil in the name of the public good, but also that they shouldn't worry about it. He was unconcerned, in other words, with what modern thinkers call 'the problem of dirty hands.'

Michael Ignatieff

#18. If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.

Mary Kay Ash