Wall Street Journal Quotes

I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.

I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.

You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.

It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance.

Bull permeates everything.... American people think politics and politicians are full of baloney.

The cynical impudence with which the reformers have tried to manufacture an ideal statesman out of the late shady politician beats anything in novel-writing. They are making popular capital. They lie and maneuver just like candidates for office. The independents and reformers are as bad as the late lamented, and for the same reason. It pays.[

Please do not be coopted by the current political class.

Redistricting is the nastiest form of politics that there is.

The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.

Michael Cohen is a criminal and Michael Cohen is a political prop.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.

You can't blame anyone for being cynical about politicians.

I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.

I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.

Negative politics have always been around.

Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers should lead the Democratic Party. They are the only Democrats with any convictions.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think, because the book was a horrific downer, an unrelenting account of the administration's actions, bungles, deceptions, half-truths, untruths, and downright corruptions.

Jason McDermott's political career, however bogus, appears to have had an early and promising start.

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

I've never met a politician I haven't wanted to walk away from, and I've yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth.