Pat Robertson Quotes

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

Politics, as an end in itself, is a poor business to be in.

Anyone who gets to the top in politics is a control freak.

Politics has been very good to me. Politics can become, and often is, very brutal

Politics always fascinated me. In my 20s, I was involved in politics and, as I look in the mirror, not for the noblest of purposes. It was for sport.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

I think that people like Bloomberg, they're complete thugs. No question about it. But on the other hand, it must be said that they are politically savvy. They don't get into those positions of power - in the case of Bloomberg, both economic and political power - by being anybody's fool.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

Washington is politics! Somehow if people have political objectives, then those objectives are automatically disqualified? If that's the case, the Democrats have no business being legitimized about anything because everything they do is political.

I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.

I can't get inside the head of a politician today.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics.

I am doing my best to prevent the corporations and the Republican Party Machine making me the … candidate for the vice presidency in order to get rid of me here as governor.

And so I am launched again upon the faithless wave of politics.

Politicians have no politics.

The White House is another world. Expediency is everything.

To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.

No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

All political careers are a rollercoaster.

'The Means' is about power. I have access to political insiders who helped me write a portrait of the real day-to-day in politics, which turned out to be crazier than Wall Street.

Look, politics can be tough.

Politics is far more complex and difficult than other professions, as it involves takeover of your own personal life.