Meghan McCain Quotes

Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.

Bunkum Darlington, who sat close to Walker in the House changed the spelling and gave it its generalized meaning of political rhetoric for the folks back home.]

When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.

The First Law of Politics: Never say anything in a national campaign that anyone might remember.

If you look at what these politicians do when they speak, most of the time they are trying to convey a tone... if I make all these points and move my hands this way, I can get re-elected. When in reality, they aren't saying anything.

Hyperbole has been part of elections since the days of John Adams, and there's nobody better than Joe Biden to give us a little hyperbole, as we all know.

Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa.

It just seemed the timing of it was a little bit of pandering to the public at a time of an election.

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.

The public is looking for free lunches, and the political competition for votes makes the politicians offer them free lunches.

Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

You cannot take any statement very seriously when it is made in an election context.

The whole art of a political speech is to put nothing into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.

Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.

In every American election, crazy things are said. Positions are taken which the winners try very hard to forget afterwards.

Senator Gillibrand is good at saying things that sound nice but have little substance. I don't think we elect our public officials to avoid taking a stand or a difficult position on anything.

When you run ads saying you are going to save social security, my friend, that's all hat and no cattle.

A nation can't get strong on political pablum.

When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Voters never grow weary of illusory promises.

Promise all that is asked and more if you can think of anything. Offer to build a bridge or a church, to divide a county, create a batch of new offices, make a turnpike, or anything they like. Promises cost nothing, therefore deny nobody who has a vote.

Politicians are ambitious not to make important decisions but to say important things.