Barbara Olson Quotes

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

Ah, political physics. Someone wins an election and, poof, they are a candidate for vice president. Ridiculous.

I had the vocation for politics. What I didn't have was any aptitude for political combat. I took the attacks personally, which is a great mistake. It's never personal: It's just business. It was ever thus.

When I think of the person that I thought was Bill Clinton, I think he had genuine remorse. When I think of the person that I now see is 100 percent politician, I think he's sorry he got caught.

Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidate' is busily engaged in testing the waters.

Some politicians denounce government in order to capture the government and then they turn around and expand the government.

Some publicity-garnering Congressional investigations might redound to our political advantage.

Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.

If you have short term political problems, you behave in a short term way.

The justice system is confused in trying to understand it, but frankly, if it paid attention to the really blatant cases and did a good job with that, we would be light years ahead of where we are now.

I'm not into political gamesmanship.

In the push and pull of Washington politics, Thom Tillis has decided there are things more important than representing North Carolina. He has put his own political interests, and serving the special interests, ahead of North Carolina's interests.

It is [a politician's] business to get and hold his job at all costs. If he can hold it by lying, he will hold it by lying; if lying peters out, he will try to hold it by embracing new truths. His ear is ever close to the ground.

I don't think [Bill Clinton] does anything - I don't think it's ill will. I don't think he's evil in the sense that he hates the Bill of Rights. He does what he figures will help him politically.

John Kerry suspended his campaign for five days this week in honor of President Reagan. And right now, he's ahead in the polls. How's that make him feel? Disappears for a week and he's up in the polls. What else can he do now but go into hiding.

The Sarah Palin choice both its timing and the fact that it was her, it was really an audacious strategic move by the McCain campaign to try to change the trajectory of the 2008 presidential race and the initial launch was very successful. She didn't withstand the scrutiny very well though and the close questioning.

One of the things that has always been my undoing in politics is my readiness to do whatever job has to be done.

There is a difference between being a political force, or a political apparent force or a potential force, and between a real discourse or a real argument.

Monica Langley of the "Wall Street Journal" is reporting that Donald Trump's strategy is essentially two-pronged. that he's trying to use the split in the GOP to rally his base and trying to depress Democratic turnout.

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

It was fascinating what a total interest he [John F. Kennedy] had in his tradecraft of being a politician. I didn't realize before that he was working on his memoirs all along, how he ran for Congress, that sort of thing.

If Hillary can't win the nomination - and it's clearly very, very hard for her - she's basically a stalking horse for McCain. She's preparing the demographic ground for McCain, by getting white working-class Democrats used to (if you will) not voting for Obama.

Michael Flynn is a very controversial figure for a variety of reasons.

I don't want want to go to jail, I'm fragile.