Keith Jarrett Quotes

When you enter the realm of politics, you don't enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song.

I figured it out real early: How can you control the city unless you're the leader of your party?

This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys.

Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.

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

As Chairman of the [House] Ways and Means Committee, I can contact the President whoever he may be, quite readily on the telephone. As a Vice President, I don't know whether he'd listen to me or not.

In politics if the people give you popularity, the other politicians observe and give you power.

The size of your business should be matched by the size of your political influence. If your political influence is smaller than your business, it will be taken away from you. If your political influence is bigger than your business, then you are a politician.

I never had a political power base.

I had dreams of high political office.

It's said that once you win an election, that you win political capital, and that's kind of my intent, is to spend political capital on the Gulf Coast, among other areas.

You have to think about how you're going to present yourself and want people, wanna show your stuff and who you are

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

I think it accrues to Hawaii's benefit that I have friends in Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin. We're already geographically isolated, so it's really critical that we don't become politically isolated.

I hate publicity. The only publicity must be through my work. I can only talk about myself in relation to work. I know about work - but I don't know about me.

I want to have a long career. But that's based on wanting people to buy into my voice and not into a fabricated image.

Politics is far more complex and difficult than other professions, as it involves takeover of your own personal life.

I want people to know I'm a real person, that I don't have someone running my Instagram; I don't have someone prewriting all of my interviews and stuff.

I don't think about being a public persona too much - I just get on with what I'm doing.

Nobody has a cakewalk to become governor.

Politics is ultimately not that complicated a profession; it's where the mediocre distinguish themselves.

I published my first book, 'Drinking & Tweeting,' when I first started 'Housewives' and was being portrayed as a fun girl who spoke the truth.

I've been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That's why I'm on social media a lot.

I want to show people what I'm about - not just, 'Here's my celebrity partner this year that I'm going to showcase.'

I will never apologize for selective editing to make myself look better.