Jeanine Pirro Quotes

I don't think that politics attracts the best and the brightest of America. It doesn't attract the most sincere people.

I personally think that Newt is amoral when it comes to politics. He'll do anything to get elected.

Created by writer Beau Willimon, who's worked on several political campaigns, 'House of Cards' cannily exploits the current widespread cynicism for our politics, catering to a public scorn that's warranted and also glib in the sort of cheap pox-on-both-houses way that means not having to pay attention.

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.

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.

Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.

The worst thing for a politician is to try and cling to power by every possible means, and focus only on that.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

The secret lives of politicians are always shady. People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren't perfect. No one is.

I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me.

Politicians, most politicians, are, by definition, people without morals and people who know no limits in what they will do to get elected.

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

I'm not the inventor of negative campaigning, but I'm an ardent practitioner.

I was attracted and repelled by what I saw of politics in my father's house. Attracted by the adventure, the opportunity. Repelled by the grasping, the artificiality, the obvious manipulation and role-playing, the repetition of emotion without feeling, particularly that: the repetition of emotion.

The trouble [with modern political campaigns] is that the technicians of the media and the professional campaign advisors believe that the negative commercials and the attack work better.

Politicians have no politics.

Negative advertising is the only way voters can find out that a candidate may be unfit for public office.

I do not believe I have the mental attitude or the politician's manner ... I am too sensitive to political mud.

If he [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he so sorely needs, he would begin fattening a missionary on the White House backyard come Wednesday.

Negative politics in a primary campaign produces damaged goods but you've got to do what you've got to do.

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.[

It seems that in the world of politics, lying is not such a big deal.

Politicians reach high and stoop low to get elected. Unfortunately, there has been more stooping than reaching as of late.

A politician will do anything to keep his job—even become a patriot.

It has now become the doctrine of a large class of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.