98% of politicians are either corrupt or corruptible.

A priest is someone like whom, we are told, we need to be to get into heaven. A politician is someone for whom, we are told, we need to vote to get heaven.

Politicians’ competence lies not in solving our problems but in convincing us that they will.

You need brains to be a great president, not to be a president.

Most of most politicians’ answers are long-winded implicit ways of saying: ‘I don’t know’ or ‘I don’t want you to know’.