QotD: Politicians

Politics is very gruelling. But then politicians deserve it: they deserve to be gruelled. That's the nice thing about picking on politicians: you never have to feel bad about doing it. When you pick on other people, there's an element of human pity that always comes up — but that's completely absent with politicians, which makes it a lot easier to tell the truth about them.

P.J. O'Rourke, "I'd love to hear a politician say: 'We'll get the second-best minds together on this'", Telegraph Online, 2005-11-13