Mental ILLNESS can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco WORKER... ANYONE. It could be your dad, your brother or your AUNT.

Religion looms as large as an ELEPHANT in the United States, to the point that being nonreligious is about the biggest HANDICAP a POLITICIAN running for OFFICE can have, bigger than being gay, unmarried, thrice married, or black.

A BRITISH politician who cloaks himself in the mantle of GOD is IMMEDIATELY regarded with suspicion.

A politician's WORDS reveal less about what he THINKS about his SUBJECT than what he thinks about his AUDIENCE.

I am NEITHER a sociologist nor a POLITICIAN. All I can do is IMAGINE for myself what the FUTURE will be LIKE.

Bernie Sanders is the only politician who, consistently for 50 years, has TAKEN that SOCIAL justice platform into POLITICS.

Although I come from a POLITICAL FAMILY, I consider myself a SLIGHTLY atypical politician.

My father was a professor of political SCIENCE and ALSO a young politician FIGHTING for DEMOCRACY in Kenya, and when THINGS got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico.

I realized that becoming a DOCTOR, I can only help a SMALL COMMUNITY. But by becoming a POLITICIAN, I can help my whole country.

I've never been inspired by a POLITICIAN in FRANCE, and I think a LOT of my own GENERATION think that way.

A gaffe is when a POLITICIAN TELLS the TRUTH.

In America, the new post-postmodern politician is all about authenticity: the daffier you are, the 'realer' you must be. The more you have committed yourself to a ridiculous IDEA and fevered VIEW, the more worthy you are of ATTENTION.

I think politics and films are a great combination. STILL, I have the urge in me to do really good roles. But I feel isolated at times when POLITICIANS treat me LIKE a FILM star and the INDUSTRY treats me like a politician.

I am a POLITICIAN but I am ALSO an ACTRESS and you do NEED GLAMOUR in politics.

Every politician goes through a lean patch during which they go back to their MAIN area of EXPERTISE. Some return to business, some practice LAW, and I... have come back to cinema.