You know the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.

I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

If a politician murders his mother the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

The politicians were talking themselves red white and blue in the face.

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals to look out for hypocrisy advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.

There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not Nature is party to all our deals and decisions and she has more votes a longer memory and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is not art. Let's say it is just objects or materials movies or writing but not art OK?