Valerie Plame Quotes

I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.

President Obama has been attacking relentlessly. In 2008 he said that if you're out of fresh ideas you use stale tactics against your opponent - you try and make your opponent unacceptable and that's what he is trying to do.

The game of politics is to make you afraid so that you don’t think.

When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.

Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.

Divide and conquer. Get your adversaries fighting among themselves

One of the favorite tricks of the Democrats is to try to get the Republicans to pass over their strongest candidate and nominate instead a candidate who will be easy to beat.

When you've got somebody who's a flaming liberal like Bill Maher calling you out, something's wrong.

Yes, I know I've played these women, but I'm not really conniving at all.

One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country.

I've never gone for the smooth, suave Latin or French lover. That usually makes me think they're trying to pull one over on me.

Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you.

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.

I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

It's probably better to have the son-of-a-bitch inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in.

… a little intriguer—plausible, but not trustworthy.

No human beings, black, yellow, or white could be quite as untruthful, as insincere, as arrogant—in short, as untrustworthy in every way—as the Russians.

The idea of being charming and really nasty at the same time is a really difficult thing to do.

When you are in the government, you have to demonise your opposition.

That is the core of Trump. He is undoubtedly an idiot, but do not underestimate how good he is at that.

I like what Lauren Duca and Alexandra Petri come up with when they're tweeting about politics.

I grew up with an infestation of politics. I'm just nuts about it. It's our form of gladiators in the arena, only they are not in quite as good a shape.

Trump's one liberal policy seems to be his desire to pump more funding into mental health - which I've taken the liberty of interpreting as a massive cry for help.