Barack Obama Quotes

John Kerry was always in front of the camera but not out doing the hard work.

It's important for me to get close to Sarah Huckabee Sanders and actually fix her makeup.

Some good souls found The Candidate cynical. I wonder what they'll think when they read this portrait of the real-life Jerry Brown... This is the book that could force the little fox into the open.

Sarah Palin's real quality is that she is her own best creation.

I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.

Nowadays, you cannot be a very Effective political figure without Having a demonstrable sense of humor. People take to it.

Theres only three things [Giuliani] mentions in a sentence—a noun, a verb, and 9/11

I think when Sarah Palin opened her mouth and started talking, the more she talked, the less appealing she became.

I have no more obligation to spin. When you’re in the White House, you spin.

It’s not only what you do in politics. It’s what you appear to do.

Theodore Roosevelt owes more to newspapers than any other man of his time, or possibly of any other time.

If ever there were a candidate destined to shine on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' Sarah Palin would be that woman.

Jeremy Corbyn confuses the public because he looks like a librarian and enjoys baking bread.

Donald Trump - you can say a lot of negative things about him, and I do, and I think he's completely unprepared for the office, and he lacks the fabric to lead this nation, but if there's one thing that he understands, it's branding and how to navigate the media.

Some people will never take Madonna seriously - just as many never took Marilyn Monroe seriously. Novelty images - especially that of a sex symbol - are hard to erase.

I don't think Donald Trump is afraid of journalists. If he was, he wouldn't be on the TV every hour on the hour.

I want people to see the full measure of Donald Trump.

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

President Reagan is a lot like E.T. He's cute, he's lovable, and he knows nothing about how Americans live.

The response is to the image, not to the man, since 99 percent of the voters have no contact with the man.

In politics, reality and appearance are of equal importance. You cannot attend to one and neglect the other. A man must determine both what he is, and what others believe him to be.

The fact that a TV star can become president should be old news since [Ronald] Reagan, and old news since the Nixon-Kennedy debates - which the famous story, whether or not you agree, is that if you listened on the radio, Nixon won; if you listened on TV, Kennedy won.

One of the things I think I can bring to the presidency is to make government and public service cool again.

I don't think there's any difference in the two Donald Trumps. Maybe I didn't make this clear. I don't think Trump's different in Washington than he is there. The difference is you don't have anybody tweeting. The Trump in Washington compared to the Trump in Middle east trip, what's the difference? The Trump in Washington is filtered by the media.

Television has changed how we choose our leaders. It elected Ronald Reagan and a host of Kennedy-look-alike congressmen with blow-dried hair and gleaming teeth. It destroyed Senator Joe McCarthy by showing him in action and it created Jerry Falwell.