No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track.
The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.
The most successful politicians are the ones who embrace their best traits while turning their liabilities into loveable attributes. And yet, many a candidate tries to run as something they aren't simply because the strategy dictates it.
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
The ridiculous way that workplace politics are conducted completely gets in the way of excellence in America.
Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.