Steven Soderbergh Quotes

There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.

I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things.

First and foremost, when I think of him - I'm prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years - when I think of him, I think of him first and foremost as an idea politician.

You don’t become a statesman unless you are first a good politician.

You're going to find that, intellectually, the [governors] as a whole are a cut or two above what they were 10 or 20 years ago.

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

I know I'd be an absolutely horrendous politician.

I spent a weekend in the White House with President Clinton, back in '99, I guess. We played golf and just hung out and talked on many subjects. I saw him several times subsequently in L.A. He's the smartest man I ever met, a great politician. Everybody was star struck around him.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

My view of Sarah Palin is she is the most dynamic figure maybe in politics, even more in some ways than President Obama, who is a little more scripted than she is. He is great with the teleprompter.

And I remember looking at Gray Davis and, you know, Gray is the consummate political operative.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California.

He has the best political mind of all the generals I have.

I believe that [Bill] Clinton is the best tactical politician, certainly in my lifetime.

Clinton was the most formidable politician I have ever encountered.

Politics is ultimately not that complicated a profession; it's where the mediocre distinguish themselves.

I hear from people all the time and it infuriates me that 'President Obama's a brilliant politician.' No he absolutely is not.

Poor Rahul Gandhi doesn't know the ABCD of Karnataka politics.

The smartest person in the United States Senate, and he knows it, is John Sununu. Thank God he had his mother's temperament.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

Lawyers are natural politicians.