Ann Garofalo Quotes

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with goodness, but with the opposite qualities of pride, craft and cruelty.

You know what kind of person it takes to run for President? Not normal. They could start out okay, but by the time they reach that level they've sold their soul to the devil so many times and stomped the guts out of enough people that they are definitely not like you and me, not even close.

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness, but with qualities which are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning, cruelty.

That's not to say Eddie's never done anything malicious. But he never grabbed power for power's sake. His position was gained only because he has that energy, and that's naturally where he ended up.

Any time there is a lot of money or ego involved, people tend to behave badly.

Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.

If I was into politics, I would be rich.

And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Politics is never about the people. It's about money. And wars. And how many heads you can step on and bodies you can step over. And I'm just not that kind of person.

Many of these [big political] donors are my friends. Those people are not like charities ... They Want. These are total tough cookies. When they give millions and millions of dollars, they're not doing it for the good of the American Cancer Society. They're doing it for themselves.

Under every stone lurks a politician

Men who have greatness within them don't go into politics.

I have the disease called politics.

I trust that the time may never come when the love of fame shall cease to be the sovereign passion of public men.

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money,--the “spoils,” so called, “of office.” And why not? For they aspire to the highest, and this, in their sleep-walking, they dream is highest. Wake them, and they shall quit the false good, and leap to the true, and leave governments to clerks and desks.

Politics, as an end in itself, is a poor business to be in.

So long as politicians need millions to win a seat in Congress and nearly a billion to contest the White House, they will sanctify the methods needed to raise such sums.

If you would know the depth of meanness of human nature, you have got to be a prime minister running for a general election.

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

Territorial Governors -- are nothing but politicians who go out to the outskirts of countries and suffer the privations there in order to build up stakes and come back as United States Senators.