Balachandra Menon Quotes

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

I'll make a general comment about this whole dependence on 'celebrities.' I object to this situation as it is right now, where they have inadvertently or manipulatively become the spokespeople for the African continent.

Mr. President, I believe your real problem is that you have somehow been unable to realize that you have won, not only won, but been re-elected by a tremendous margin.

If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.

I'm proud that Colorado delivered a victory to Barack Obama in 2008 and we will do so again in 2012.

I’ve won the election.

It's not that people voted for me because I was an athlete, but what did help was that people knew my name.... The two Olympic gold medals were the most important contributions to my campaign fund.

We are on the verge of seeing an actor who couldn’t win an Oscar win the governor’s race of California.

I was the last person to announce I was running for Congress in a big district, and I still won.

The RNC had been incredibly supportive of my efforts in 2014... I couldn't have won without them.

Winning the presidential election with 70 percent of turnout is excellent news. I'm very moved.

The whole celebrity thing didn't work for Hillary Clinton. She tried that in her campaign and it failed.

The ideas that accompany that victory, the ideas and the policies that are related to those ideas that are implemented after you win the election. And then it's not just one election; you have to keep winning elections. You have to keep defeating liberals, and it's the same thing here in the Brexit vote.

I'm the only one that can take the debate to Barack Obama and win and be elected.

Donald Trump beat Jeb Bush and beat Hillary Clinton. And when everyone thinks of Donald Trump that's pretty impressive.

Leonardo DiCaprio I find very inspiring... He's my idol. I absolutely love Leonardo DiCaprio. Christian Bale, obviously, being a British actor and going from 'Empire of the Sun.' Now he's Batman.

For years, as a seller of real estate and star of reality TV, Donald Trump made a living wooing customers and viewers. His selling skills were good enough that he even convinced voters to elect him as president in spite of his near-total lack of qualifications.

When you see celebrities say, 'I hope the economy bottoms out to get rid of Trump,' I think that helps Trump.

My interest in this Senate seat really had nothing to do with President Obama's success. I've been convinced that the right person can win, regardless.

I want Priyanka Chopra to do my biopic. I think she is very good and lovely. Priyanka would be the ideal actress to play my part.

It's a great honour for me to be a part of a Kamal Haasan film.

Not only has celebrity dumbed down our politics, it has become intertwined with it.

Unfortunately, celebrity is a powerful thing. It can influence people, but if it can influence people in a good way, then that's a great thing.

I love The Rock. I never want him to be president.

I have always been so inspired by Goldie Hawn.