Political Burnout Quotes

By the end of 'Game Change,' one feels that the candidates' few happy moments are those when they 'lose it.'

I'm pretty much done with political commentary. I've said everything I could possibly say. I've been a big mouth for long enough.

Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.

We're a country of five-second sound bites and 30-second commercials. Eight years of one person is just too much.

I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you.

I was a political junkie, and it just exhausted me, and after Obama won, I just kind of unplugged from all of that for a while.

Negativity drove me out of politics in the mid-Nineties.

After the White House, what is there to do but drink?

Either you die in Congress or you get out before you are 60 so you can still do something else.

People get so tired of the '60s.

I don't love being Leader of the Green Party. It is not really something I'd recommend to a good friend. It's not fun.

Leaving politics was a good thing. I was spared a miserable Tory government where I might have ended up as leader.

Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.

I was too much of a victim of the model I created. I tried Change to Win and helping Obama, and then I just ran out of Andy Stern ideas.

People feel overloaded, that politics has become kind of a public utility: hot- and cold-running politics any time of the day or night.

One of my personal theories of 'The Mayor' is that I feel like the show arrived on the scene at a time when people were feeling a little bit fatigued about anything that had to do with politics.

I'm often asked why I left politics and went to Halliburton and I explain that I reached the point where I was mean-spirited, short-tempered and intolerant of those who disagreed with me and they said 'Hell, you'd make a great CEO', so I went to Texas and joined the private sector.

I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it.

I quit politics because I hated it.

I just feel like, for me personally, there's just been so much election fatigue, and while I think it was very important during the election to always be on top of everything that was going on with the election via social media, I do feel like, all right, now we need a little bit of a detox. I think people need a little bit of a break from it.