Josh Billings Quotes

There's all this talk about Arnold Schwarzenegger. Well, you know where he is now? Visiting Mexico, which I think means that he is definitely going to run for governor. Arnold is smart. He's in Mexico campaigning with the very people who'll be living here by election time.

You know what kind of person it takes to run for President? Not normal. They could start out okay, but by the time they reach that level they've sold their soul to the devil so many times and stomped the guts out of enough people that they are definitely not like you and me, not even close.

If a politician, during a campaign, finds it necessary to resort to flattery, he should spread it on, not in thin layers, but with a trowel, or better yet, a shovel.

I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness.

It just seemed the timing of it was a little bit of pandering to the public at a time of an election.

When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.

Ann Romney has been front-and-center. She's held a lot of town halls, a lot of campaign rallies, on her own, separate from her husband. And she is dynamite out on the campaign trail.

The single biggest weakness that politicians have as a group is that they want people to like them.

The politician must always tell people what they want to hear.

A most wretched custom is our electioneering and scrambling for office. Misserima omnimo est ambitio honorumque contentio.

A political campaign is a movement. It's built around a single candidate. It will evaporate when he or she gets elected.

Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails.

There's nothing more exhilarating than being out on the campaign trail.

Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to become President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

I campaign all the time.

I am not a politician. A politician is someone who does things to get elected. He's a guy who says things to please the public, that he thinks the public wants to hear, and his story changes with every passing day. I want to be elected, but I am not going to say a damn thing for your benefit, or that person's benefit out there on the street, or anybody's

I’m always amused by politicians running against Washington, when they desperately want to get to Washington.

I’ll be down there pressing the flesh.

You can pander, but you've got to do it in a way that doesn't seem like pandering.

Nixon is the last candidate who couldn’t make it on the Johnny Carson Show who could make it in an election.

A man’s got to walk if he is going to be in politics.

During election time, I work over 21 hours. My day starts around 6 A.M., and I address meetings through the day. Between 10 P.M. and 2 A.M., I meet local leaders, where we discuss local issues and local problems.

Every time you work on a political campaign, half the people hate you. That's how it is.

I don't feel like I'm running against them, I feel like I'm running to try to show the American people what I can do and what I can accomplish.

Everybody's saying I should run for president.