A lot of people are in politics to make friends, too, instead of making positive change. They're worried about getting re-elected.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have good friends who are politicians on both sides.
Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.
The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.
My definition of a 'friend' is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, 'Yeah, sure. You know what? Let's talk about what we can talk about. Let's help each other out. Your politics are none of my business.'
I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others.
In politics, there are no friends.
I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.