“The Politician” is a dramatic comedy series that follows the ambitious and cutthroat high school student, Payton Hobart, portrayed by Ben Platt, who has his sights set on becoming the President of the United States. The show delves into his journey navigating the treacherous waters of student politics and personal relationships as he seeks to achieve his lofty goals
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The Politician Tv Series Quotes
1- Payton : “What’s more important the train, the conductor, or the tracks?”
2- Georgina Hobart : “You can’t teach kindness… Can’t do much with small hearts. Hard hearts maybe, but not small ones.”
3- Payton : “I’m not about enjoyment. I’m about winning”
4- McAfee : “Our loyalty is with you, Payton. This is a plane. We’re all headed to the same place. You’re the pilot. James and I are your navigators.”
5- River : “You don’t have to be a good person, as long as you do good things.”
6- Payton Hobart : “I’m not a box. I don’t have four sides for you to look at and approve of…I have feelings. This is the true me. This is who I am. I am a winner… I will not be stopped.”
7- Payton : “People like to think of their presidents as characters they see on TV.”
8- River Barkley : “The world is dark. And I think teenagers nowadays realize that…I keep thinking that the only thing we all share together is that we’re all alone. And we take pictures, and we post them, and we Facebook and Insta and Tweet and Snap, and it just makes it worse.”
9- Payton : “I was a politician and not a human being. “
10- Payton : “I’m warning you, do not screw with my dream.”
11- Astrid Sloan : “I will do better at appearing more authentic from now on… I promise to be more real from now on.”
12- Georgina : “Your ambition frightens me.”
13- Dusty Jackson : I’m no saint. I’m just a little old country girl.
14- Dusty : “It’s what gays do, munch butts and celebrate Halloween.”
15- Payton : “My ambition just poisoned every decision.”
16- Georgina : “Your generation got the terrible idea that it was best to vomit every thought and feeling all over each other. It’s a pandemic of overcommunication that’s led to an absence of intimacy.”
17- Theo ::”You want to beat him? You need to embrace your inner coldness unapologetically.”
18- Payton : “I’m merely stating a fact, I will be president someday.”
19- River : “You’re gonna change the world, Payton.”
20- Payton : “I help people because it serves me.”
21- Alice Charles :“A polygraph isn’t a test. It’s an interrogation tool, and the only role the polygraph plays is to intimidate. You can’t record truth or deception. There’s no such thing as a lying reaction. What a polygraph records is nervousness.”
22- Payton Hobart : “I have the good fortune of being born both rich and poor.”
23- Georgina Hobart: “Nothing is permanent. Not what you own, not what you love, not even the things that you think will break you forever.”
24- River Barkley: “There’s no such thing as destiny. Just men like you, who when the world needs them, answer the call.”
25- Payton Hobart : “When the stakes get higher, friendships fail.”
26- Georgina Hobart: “You can’t teach kindness. You know? I tried for a long time. Can’t do much with small hearts. Hard hearts, maybe, but not small ones.”
