Kay Bailey Hutchison Quotes

I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in Italy and president of the European Commission for more than five years.

When I hear Hillary Clinton talking about what she is planning to do, why hasn't she done it for the last 30 years?

I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me.

Some Democrats deserve to be criticized.

I don't know that we do. I had thought ours worked well, but I had never examined it too closely. A lot of media people will be looking for a case that might make Texas Governor George Bush think twice about what he's doing.

You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.

My family has been in politics a long time in Los Angeles. We very much believe we are elected to represent the people. I mean, I am to give voice to, you know, the over half a million people I represent in my congressional district. I mean, that's the way it works.

But we made a decision based on the fact that we have been up there a long time and that we feel that the seniority is important to the people of Louisiana.

I don't think we've asked the right questions, the tough questions, at the right time, in Washington.

For better or worse, when you're running for mayor, there's a little bit of a spotlight on you.

It takes a long time to build democracy, to build freedom.

The leader of a political party in a country like ours is so exposed that his enemies become as numerous and formidable as his friends.

Governor George Pataki has built a record to run from, not to run on.

The margin of error when working on the White House staff is zero. Any mistake you make will wind up on the front page of the Washington Post.

A politician can never escape his past; he can transcend his past.

It’s always open season on the personal lives of presidents or presidential candidates.

I myself have raised plenty of questions about Sarah Palin, much to the annoyance of the McCain campaign. But those questions have been about her qualifications and experience, never her appearance.

The topic of Sarah Palin has been open season to the media, entertainment industry, and club comics alike.

No politician can expect to escape criticism for a controversial decision and we have to be robust in justifying what we do.

If you're a public figure, and if you're working in the White House, you should expect everything you're saying in any context to be leaked.

We critique all politicians who are in power, whenever there's a talking point.

When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?

When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.

If Obama needs to be criticized, I will criticize him. There's a tremendous amount of excitement about him. And a corollary of that is, as we're learning, from newspapers and magazines that are going into overdrive reprinting Obama editions, etc.

Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws.