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I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost. I don't really need to do that, and I thought if I could do something for sport in Scotland, that would be really fulfilling.

The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money.

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.

What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they hold that office, they spend all their time in office paying back over and over again those campaign contributions through various favors and contracts and that sort of thing.

I'm interested in full disclosure for people who give money to politicians. But I'm not a politician. I'm an advocate.

It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.

People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often don't elect politicians, so the politicians who are supporting them are really being very charitable, because they're not going to give them billions of dollars in campaign funds.