Sanjaya Baru Quotes

Very few people go into politics to be reviled.

Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.

Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.

Anyone who gets too close to President Bush will get burned.

I didn't think [Canadian Prime Minister John] Diefenbaker was a son of a bitch. I thought he was a prick.

Is the role of the prime minister to cultivate political leadership in Israel? My answer is yes.

For Obama, 'rule of law' is merely his political silly-putty.

What do you prefer? A prime minister obsessed with being popular, or a prime minister who does the job?

I think Donald Trump is a complete and utter buffoon and a cancer to our society.

I have chosen a different path when talking about the failings of the Republican leadership. I don't make it personal, and many other people do, and I suspect maybe they're not aware of that. If everybody's dumping on 'em, they're gonna conclude that everybody is.

You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.

Now you may do it badly, you may do it well, some people like you, some people hate you, all the rest of it - but you have got a real motivating life purpose. [on being Prime Minister

Did you hear what the Republicans have said about Hillary Clinton? They say she's too angry to be president. Hillary Clinton, Senator Hillary Clinton, too angry to be president. When she heard this, Hillary said, 'Oh yeah? I'll rip your throats out, you bastards.'

Obama is not embarrassing. The country is embarrassing.

On the way up here to the podium, a gentleman came up to me and said, "Governor, you are as good a politician as you were an actor." What a cheap shot.

A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.

I'm not disappointed in [Barack] Obama. He said who he is; he's doing what he said he would do.

No other chancellor in the long history of the office has felt the need to pass a law in order to convince people he has the political will to implement his own Budget.

As for Gordon Brown - I've described him and Blair as two cheeks of the same arse.

David Jolly is the only Republican I could find who's really saying Donald Trump, you're out, forget it, this is unacceptable, this is beyond the pale.

The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.

The the relationship between the prime minister and the monarch is very much a personal one and when it comes to the constitution of the Order of Australia, which is headed by the monarch, this is governed by letters patent, which are a matter between the prime minister and the monarch.

George Bush and his gang imagine they are being political geniuses.

Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. ... I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.

Any attempt to wriggle, especially from leadership candidates who campaigned to leave the EU by focusing on immigration, will be unacceptable to the public.