Rob Lowe Quotes

I'm not into political gamesmanship.

There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.

I'm not consumed with political machinations.

I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.

Anyone who gets to the top in politics is a control freak.

There are little games that go on in politics.

I have no doubt that the Congress is active in manipulative politics.

Everything in politics is so stage-managed.

This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.

To me, politics is a pile of tricks.

I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.

Politics is a blood sport.

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

I think most of America is seeing the strings behind the campaign, and sees the crass political maneuvers that people are making. I mean, they're extremely apparent to me.

Under every stone lurks a politician

[Politics in America is:] A chess tournament disguised as a circus.

Politics—where they pat you on the back so they'll know where to stick the knife.

What Mr. [Robert F.] Kennedy says lacks only the merit of being true ... Bobby Kennedy can jump off the capital dome or whatever else he has to do to get the attention of the American people.

The “cant” of the politician, like the cant of the “religious” man, is also protean in its guise, but its chief method is to explain away words. The politician can always show you that he didn’t mean what he says, but something rather different from what he says. Political cant consists in pretending to agreement with hearers, whoever they may be. This cant is part of the stock-in-trade of every politician, be he Tory, Whig, or Radical, and it is by its means that he tries to haul in stray votes.

If you construct political narratives around the psychodramas of politicians, even when they don't invite it, you open the way for those who can play this game more effectively.

I don't play politics.

Politicians pretend not to be smart.

I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar.