Charan Das Mahant Quotes

My children were attacked by the Minnesota media when I was governor.

A person in politics can in a few days go from hero to zero …

Scandals have impacted many politicians' careers and aspirations. Some have survived, and others have fallen.

Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.

Anyone who gets too close to President Bush will get burned.

Susan Rice has as much trouble with her memory as Hillary Clinton.

... I still have sympathy for some of the people who've fallen from grace in Washington. The feeding frenzy can be so unforgiving, especially in this day of nonstop cable news.

No words can describe the depths of my regret and pain at the anguish my mistakes over Watergate have caused the nation and the presidency - a nation I so deeply love and an institution I so greatly respect.

Nothing deflates so fast as a punctured reputation.

What we've seen from Donald Trump has been so negative that nobody wants to be associated with that.

Every newspaper on earth has called me a liar.

There is nothing worse than a politician that gets defensive and starts attacking the media - and it always looks bad for the politician, because you sign up for this. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.

When the now-infamous Donald Trump-Billy Bush audio feed was released, my confidence in Trump all but evaporated.

Do we want someone as secretary of state that is somehow tainted in this Benghazi issue?

I thought Trump really exposed himself as a truther, and I don't think that will play real well in South Carolina.

We're still in the ditch, and the Gennifer Flowers story about Bill Clinton says it all. A tabloid fired several bullets into the air, and the rest of the herd began to stampede.

I have never endorsed Roy Moore. Just the fact that he was forced off the state supreme court is enough for me.

I'd tell you whose brand was tainted is Donald Trump. I mean, this guy was tainted every kind of way you could imagine. I mean, no way in the world that Donald Trump is a champion of working people.

In the 70s and 80s, Dad was 'the most hated politician in Britain'. When I started at Holland Park school, the papers turned up and there was a photograph of me published - skinny me in white shorts lining up with lots of other kids for PE. And I was 10.

I was a relatively anonymous guy, and for whatever reason, I became one of the villains for the Right.

I think 'Ek Chhotisi Love Story' has really damaged me. People think they can compromise my reputation and get away with it.

The reality here is, these are people that campaign for votes, and nobody wants to be associated with pictures that would certainly exist, even if they were fake, and they most likely would be. You know, can you imagine 150 pictures of that federal agent storming the home in Florida to kidnap Elian Gonzalez and send him back to Cuba?

The president [George W. Bush] broke his bond with the public. Once that bond was broken, he no longer had the capacity to talk to the American public. State of the Union addresses? It didn't matter. Legislative initiatives? It didn't matter. P.R.? It didn't matter. Travel? It didn't matter.

You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician.

There isn't anything you can expose Trump on that people don't already know and haven't already accepted.