Atishi Quotes

every man who takes a part in politics, especially in times when parties run high, must expect to be abused; they must bear it; and their friends must learn to bear it for them.

I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism.

I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.

Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up.

If you don't like being attacked for your point of view, you shouldn't be in politics in the first place.

If I were to run for president, then people would debate the pros and cons of what's wrong with me in increasingly aggressive 140 character tweets and Facebook status updates, and, inevitably, everyone would end up fighting.

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.

As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being in a situation where generally people are rooting for me, and if they aren't rooting for me, they aren't out there to see my downfall. I respect the people who have the stomach for it.

When Barack Obama is right, then I'll support him. When he is wrong, I'll fight him.

Politics is my life. If I had a hobby, it would be politics.

Politicians who have been around for a while tend to have thick skins.

In public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect must always expect to encounter political hostility from those of adverse principles.

I'm absolutely fine with the rough and tumble of politics.

I think you have to have really thick skin to be in politics - which I just lack. I think I'm just too nice!

I knew who Buckley and Vidal were growing up, being a political junkie.

I am happy to debate the past with the Prime Minister... I have a big dossier on his past, and I did not even have to sex it up.

Most Americans don't shout their politics, much less blast it from their TVs while serving you fried pickles - that's the Left.

I'm a politician who has to for a time serve in public life, and I get death threats. And it is what it is because you've put yourself out there in the public square.

I am not a fan of President Trump, I should say. I wouldn't try to comment on every particular issue in which we disagree, but there are plenty of them.

A few weeks ago, I was at the gym, talking to a friend about politics. Overhearing the conversation, a young man - maybe 25 years old - interrupted to say, 'Obama? He hasn't done a single thing!'

I would love to just write and not have everything I say or do turn into a political battle.

Politics is a big no-no for me. I'm not a person who can go through that journey in life.

Well honestly, I do stay away from being political, especially about Trump. It's just one of those things.

I would rather sit down with a Hollywood liberal any day than simply surround myself with fellow conservatives.

Every election cycle there has been some manoeuvre against me, so at some level I am used to it.