Jim Brown Quotes

If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have to make basic changes?

Politicians shouldn't spend most of their time in office trying to get reelected.

Is that a politician’s ‘No’?

Must politicians only care about bringing home the bacon so that they can get re-elected.

I think the truth is always interesting, but with politicians, you don't get to see much of that.

So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.

When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

I'm a politician. What I say is not holy writ.

The politician must always tell people what they want to hear.

What is the use of being elected or reelected unless you stand for something?

Re-election campaigns of sitting presidents are always about the sitting president.

Politicians livelihoods depend on what people think.

The iron need to get reelected will always take priority over a relative abstraction like a budget deficit.

I am not a politician. A politician is someone who does things to get elected. He's a guy who says things to please the public, that he thinks the public wants to hear, and his story changes with every passing day. I want to be elected, but I am not going to say a damn thing for your benefit, or that person's benefit out there on the street, or anybody's

India’s democracy has dissolved into … a system totally dominated by electoral victories and defeats. The moment you enter office, you begin to think of the next election.

I'm running for president because there's no way we can elect Hillary Clinton to continue the policies.

When it comes to a mayor, they [the voters] often want whatever they haven’t just had.

I can't vote my own convictions on civil rights. If I did, I wouldn't be returned to the Senate. It's as simple as that.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

Politicians listen to economists who tell them what they want to hear.

Politicians always do a two-step, depending on what their district politics looks like.

Most politicians come into politics because they want to make a difference; we just have different ideas how to do it.

I think politicians really go with the tide.