Greg Gutfeld Quotes

I understand the process of politics and the game of television.

A President has to do the image stuff that will help him so that he can do the substantive things he wants to do.

You have got to convince people, the Drive-By Media, the mainstream media, is never going to support us, and if you continue to define political success as the media supporting us and not supporting a Democrat, you're never gonna be happy, because that's never going to happen. And if that remains your measure of success, then you're gonna get fooled each and every time.

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

I know politics; I know the media.

Democrats were simply hoping to win some political points by getting their outlandish rhetoric published in the newspapers and heard on the talk shows.

Forget the consultants, the pundits and the pollsters; good policy is good politics.

I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.

I set the propaganda machine in motion. Now we will see what the apparatus will do.

Politics is the business of managing perceptions.

Pete Wilson was never more than the sum total of his focus groups.

Television has shortened our political discourse.

Half of my job is to help build public support for the President’s agenda.

In order to govern you have to feed the news cycle

How can you govern if you always have to feed the news cycle?

Politics is television and whoever masters it is likely to win.

In politics, you don’t have to love the press; you don’t even have to like the press, but you sure as hell have to feed the press.

There is something wrong with the way in which we make our decisions. The Government listen too much to the pollsters and the party managers. The trouble is that they are not even very good at politics, and they are entering too much into policy decisions. As a result, there is too much short-termism, too much reacting to events, and not enough shaping of events. We give the impression of being in office but not in power. Far too many important decisions are made for 36 hours' publicity.

As human nature is very much the same in Congress as in a stock exchange, a church convention, or a newspaper office, the President who deals with Congress tactfully and courteously will, in the long run get more of what he wants than the President who does not do so. He may not get so much credit for what he does gain, from those people who like to see a President fight Congress, especially in that flattering way which consists in appealing to them to make Congress do what the President wants done.

You can’t govern a country on charisma.

Politics is power, and communications is power,

Masterful politicians and effective agents of change tend to succeed by singling out and making salient some aspect of a nation's self-understanding, sparking a sense of recognition - and ultimately moving voters in their favor. Obama made it into an art form.

What do you prefer? A prime minister obsessed with being popular, or a prime minister who does the job?

I would do whatever I could to make Jeremy Corbyn more electable, but you've got to give me something to work with, mate.