Mel Gibson Quotes

There are no techniques in politics.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him, he is a statesman.

Anyone who gets to the top in politics is a control freak.

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.

You know what kind of person it takes to run for President? Not normal. They could start out okay, but by the time they reach that level they've sold their soul to the devil so many times and stomped the guts out of enough people that they are definitely not like you and me, not even close.

The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.

It's interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.

To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.

We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it.

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.

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

If you lose, you can't lead. If you don't lead, you're irrelevant. Winning is what it's all about in politics.

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

Politics. Where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be a candidate themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

A good politicians knows his friends and a good politician knows his enemies.

Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails.

Politicians are like horses, they cannot go properly without blinkers.

A politician rises on the backs of his friends ... but it is through his enemies he will have to govern afterwards.

The hardest thing in most Ottawa men's [politicians] pants is their cellular phone.

No man can be a politician except he be first a historian.

The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.

To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.

Politics is power, and communications is power,

When most people find themselves running afoul of the law, they might change their ways. When the Koch brothers found themselves running afoul of the law, David Koch decided to run for office so that he could change the law.

'The Means' is about power. I have access to political insiders who helped me write a portrait of the real day-to-day in politics, which turned out to be crazier than Wall Street.