Alex Kroll Quotes

Any man familiar with public life realizes the foul gossip which ripples just under the surface about almost every public man, and especially about every President

In political advertising, truth only has an advantage when a credible source makes it known.

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

The government is promoting bad behavior.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

The Tea Party elites gained extraordinary influence by being able to funnel millions of undisclosed dollars into campaigns with ads that distort the truth and attack government.

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

Huey Long’s methods outdid the good he did with the results.

The homes of America are horrified and the intelligence of Americans is insulted by weird television advertising by which this Administration threatens the end of the world unless all-wise Lyndon is given the nation for his very own.

In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced.... You have to have been somebody to fall.

To expect integrity or honesty in a politician is like trying to buy fish at a produce market.

It’s attack advertising. It’s dirty tricks advertising. It’s dishonest and lowers the level of the political conversation.

The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work

It is very dangerous for a government, judge or jury to determine what is deceptive advertising in a political context…. We pay a price for freedom of speech, and that price includes falsehoods that can be repeated thousands of time.

Being a politician from Louisiana is emotionally difficult. Everyone you meet outside the state thinks you’re corrupt, and most of the folk in the state are sure of it.

These Yankee politicians are the lowest race of thieves in existence.

The worst thing about being in the public eye is that journalists write things that you can't control.

Sad to say, negative advertising really works.

Scandals have impacted many politicians' careers and aspirations. Some have survived, and others have fallen.

The infamous political ads like Carly Fiorina's 'Demon Sheep' and Christine O'Donnell's 'I Am Not a Witch' are so confusing, it's almost like they were paid for by Democrats.

Susan Rice has as much trouble with her memory as Hillary Clinton.

Rudy Giuliani was a great mayor and a great leader, but he has turned into an unmitigated - and now, it seems, unethical - disaster.

Somehow it did not occur to us that, in a developed democracy, regular media advertising could turn out to be a suspicious and harmful activity.

Experience to a politician is like experience to a prostitute - not much to recommend them.