James P. Hogan Quotes

Unfortunately politicians are not very sound people or they wouldn't be politicians.

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.

No man should have a political office because he wants a job.

To be honest, I find most politicians very untrustworthy. When I listen to them talking - or rather, lying - I just feel there are very few politicians with integrity, so I never know who to bat for.

I don't think that politics attracts the best and the brightest of America. It doesn't attract the most sincere people.

I'd like to run for office someday, but I'm afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage.

He's a terrible politician, but he makes a fine senator and public servant.

In the heart of every legislator lurks a judicial candidate waiting his or her turn for election.

I actually think you should run for president if you're going to be president, if you want to be president. I'm not running for president. I made that decision, consciously, not to.

Maybe its time for politicians to fight back a little bit in terms of this notion that politicians are all in it for themselves, we're all the same, we're not driven by sincere motives. Because the fact of the matter is the vast majority are.

Donald Trump is way worse than George W. Bush. George W. Bush is a fundamentally decent man of limited intelligence who surrounded himself with awful people who dragged him in terrible directions. He was a bad president. But he was not actively malign, in the sense that he did what he thought was right. I don't think this guy cares what's right. I think he's in it for self-aggrandizement, for profit, and for power.

I didn't -- I swear I didn't -- get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests.

Our politics suffers from a shortage of people who put character and country before career and personal gain.

Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.

Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the televison audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service

Hillary Clinton would rather protect bureaucrats than serve American children, and that's what she's doing and that's what she's done.

An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.

You will not find that I ever changed a view or a vote because of any donation that I ever received.

He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man.

I always judge people who spend a lot of time in public office say they care about things, if the day after they leave, they no longer talk about them, then I don't think they cared much about them.

There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are. Our prevailing passions are ambition and interest.

There are some honorable politicians; and God bless them, there aren't many of them - but they're narcissistic. They need people to love them.

Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.

It is a tremendous sacrifice to run for political office in America today.