A Quote by Ben Stein

Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.

Ben Stein

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Ben Stein
American - Actor
Born: November 25, 1944

You have to have an almost boundless reservoir of energy and interest to enter politics because quite often it's thankless and fruitless and you can't accomplish much.

Sylvester Stallone

L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

Nick Cave

Politics is an ugly and thankless role.

Margaret Trudeau

First lady has been a thankless position. Eleanor Roosevelt was brilliant and had strong views. She was criticized for her politics and for her appearance. Mrs. Roosevelt was attacked for being too involved in politics. Bess Truman was criticized for being uninvolved in politics.

Karen DeCrow

It's not always thankless. Let's face it - it's not always thankless. I've gotten a lot of really great recognition and I've worked with amazing people.

Kyra Sedgwick

Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only reader on whose interest you can count.

Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

Pericles

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

Pericles

I have done political things, I couldn't care less about politics. I have zero interest in politics, really. They don't allure me. I have no interest in them, because if I could believe the law could change people's behavior then I would become a politician. But only Christ can change the heart.

Rick Warren

When I was 5, my father was very much my hero. And he ran for political office in a very thankless campaign for a very thankless position. And he did it because his mother had instilled in him, if you are someone who has the capacity to make a great change, you have the responsibility.

Howard Warren Buffett

Politics now is really only about self-interest, which means it has violence built into it because your self-interest is going to collide with the self-interest of the rest of the world. That's inevitable.

Pankaj Mishra

Politics, I believe, is a full-time occupation.

Wole Soyinka

No, I'm not interested in politics. I have zero interest. I have interest in hope and people.

Jay-Z

I honestly have no interest in politics; I don't think I could ever get into politics.

Shilpa Shetty

In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.

Edwidge Danticat

When I was very young, I took no interest in party politics. My line of interest was how can you be part of an influence to the society that you live in.

Margrethe Vestager

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