Steve Bullock Quotes

Is that a politician’s ‘No’?

I never believe any politician talking about popular culture.

You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.

It's been interesting to see how similar audiences in the East and West are, actually, and how it makes you realize that when politicians emphasize the differences between our cultures, it's usually because it benefits them more so than us.

Our politicians don't say anything anymore: they just refute and assert.

I think politicians know how to misrepresent data in order to support a political agenda. Politicians and the people that work for them - I should say - are expert at that.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

Our adversaries - our Democratic adversaries - like to be able to portray the Republican Party as a bunch of wingnuts - narrow based, always have some agenda that's not attractive to the public... That's easier for them, and more fun, than dealing with their own problems. And I think their problems are significant.

I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels.

The whole art of a political speech is to put nothing into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.

When numbers are being crunched by politicians, axes are usually grinding.

Groups like ours are potentially dangerous to the political process ... A group like ours could lie through its teeth and the candidate it helps stays clean.

Governments first decide on their interests and then seek the vocabulary most congenial to their policies.

There are a lot of spin doctors on the economic numbers, not just politicians.

For too long, politicians have been telling people what they want to hear.

Politicians are waving the diaper as often as they wave the flag.

Part of politics is redundancy. You’ve got to say the same thing over and over even if you get tired of it…not everyone has heard it.

I shall resist the temptation to say that that was a sound byte.

Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.

Socialists have infiltrated our schools, our law courts, our government, our MEDIA OF COMMUNICATIONS. ... the Socialist movement is made up of a relatively small number of people who have developed the TECHNIQUE OF INFLUENCING large masses of people to a VERY HIGH DEGREE

Books by politicians paint a picture of what they want you to see, not what really happened.

Only in the Orwellian world of double-speak employed by President Barack Obama and billionaire elitist Michael Bloomberg would nonsense be hailed as 'common sense.'

As politicians, we're very, very much trained to say something and stick with it.

It's the oldest trick in Washington - when presented with a policy solution you don't like, characterize it as the bogeyman.

Some have tried to use my work for politics, using inaccurate or out-of-context information that, repeated enough, becomes truth to some even though it is not.