Jed Mercurio Quotes

I can give substantive advice to the administration, the president's campaign, or any campaign that would ask for it. And, of course, when I speak I can talk about my views on policy and I have been supportive of the president's policy on leading foreign-policy issues.

I don't believe in populism.

First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

There are aspects of '24' where I love its politics and aspects where I hate them.

Well it's really hard to satisfy the right wing. I can tell you that.

Government frequently has a problem recognizing perception versus reality.

I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.

If I were a liberal Democrat, people would say I'm the super genius of all time. The super genius of all time. If you're a conservative Republican, you've got to fight for your life. It's really an amazing thing.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

By definition, politics is, or ought to be, division.

The policies and the laws are no better than the people who are enforcing them.

For elites, the politics of governing is seen as a continual struggle to manage public emotions so that they do not overwhelm sound public policy.

I have been amazed to see how unrealistic are the bases for political opinion in general. Only rarely have I found a person who has chosen any particular political party—democratic or totalitarian—through study and comparison of principles.

You could never write for me. You're too liberal. But you're fine for Jack.

Too many people in this town think about politics when they make every decision.

Politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far as blather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.

Politics or ideology must not get in the way of sound planning..

Did you loathe and detest the Bush administration? If so, you'd probably say its ideas were horrible and their execution worse. Did you not loathe and detest the Bush administration? In that case, you might say its ideas were pretty good - only the execution often left something to be desired.

My daughter's met Hillary Clinton, so she's got a strong bias. But she, of course, parrots me and goes, 'Oh, Donald Trump, I don't like him!' I'm like, 'That's good!'

'National Review' and 'The Weekly Standard' are both left-wing magazines, and I want to destroy them also.

There's politics in all aspects of our daily lives.

There's nothing that can shock me anymore, but at this point, Trump's made it very clear how his temperament is, how his personality is, what his level of intellectual depth is when it comes to policy, and he's made it abundantly clear that he's utterly unqualified to be president - no matter what your political views are.

I'm used to the Right being singled out by the entertainers.

I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.