[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt..
A politician before he can become a statesman has to remain in office long enough..
You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur..
The question is not whether or not there should be a cult of the individual, but rather whether or not the individual concerned represents the truth,….
For my birthday, buy me a politician!.
The good and the bad news is that politicians rarely do what they say they are going to do when they campaign..
No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit..
When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead..
We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen..
It is not the business of politicians to please everyone..
I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and 25 percent actor, but I can well see the day when the reverse could be true..
In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable..
Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas.
I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician..
It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people..
I think one of the luxuries of being a filmmaker is that you can ask questions but not necessarily have to answer them. Certainly, if I was a politic….
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians..
The problem is not liberal politicians, its evangelical preachers..
I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers..
What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever. I just gather material and ….
It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you..