Politician Quotes in Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu (2006)

Politician: You don't know about me!

Raghavan: I know and I know what your mother does.

Mr. Crimmin: Gentlemen, I may not know as much as you about economics and theology, but I do know politics and what is the essential quality that we demand in our candidate. It is simply this: that he be able to get himself elected.

Politician: Well, there's something in what you say.

Politician: And do you think he can do it?

Mr. Crimmin: I tell you, gentlemen, in that uncouth rail splitter you may observe one of the slickest, smoothest politicians that ever hoodwinked a yokel mob.

Governor William J. Le Petomane: [pointing to a member of his cabinet] I didn't get a "harrumph" out of that guy!

Hedley Lamarr: Give the Governor harrumph!

Politician: Harrumph!

Governor William J. Le Petomane: You watch your ass.

Politician: Turns out that Parkes is the biggest radio telescope in the Southern Hemisphere.

Prime Minister: What's it doing in the middle of a sheep paddock?

Politician: NASA's upgraded us. Parkes is now the prime receiving station.

Prime Minister: Meaning?

Politician: We've got the moonwalk.

Prime Minister: Jesus. The people at this place, they know what they're doing?

Politician: I think so.

Prime Minister: You'd bloody well hope so!