Frank Bruni Quotes

I am not a professional politician.

I'd love to run for office, but it requires such knowledge.

From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing.

Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win.

You would make the best governor but not the best candidate.

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

A man’s got to walk if he is going to be in politics.

Politicians are actors, too, don't you think? Usually, if you like people and you're outgoing, not a shy little thing, you can do pretty well in politics.

On the political side, I was the Democratic nominee for the Governor of Tennessee in 1970 and 1998.

I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office.

I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.

We're novices. We have friends now who are part of the freshman class who in some cases have run for Congress two and three times before they won their seat.

I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.

My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.

We are in a war on ignorance, a war on scientific ignorance.

We are on the verge of seeing an actor who couldn’t win an Oscar win the governor’s race of California.

Nixon is the last candidate who couldn’t make it on the Johnny Carson Show who could make it in an election.

I do not purport to be a professional politician.

Pence is the very personification of the career politician. With the exception of a few years doing talk radio and television shows, he has done nothing but run for office, winning all but the first two times.

I'm not a politician. I'm not a career politician.

I had dreams of high political office.

Running for Congress isn't something I ever thought I would do.

As it became clear that Senator Rubio was likely to run for president, I received encouragement to consider running for the Senate.

I am not a fan of Mitt Romney, but I admit that he is, politically speaking, a good candidate for president. He has no personal baggage. He's as handsome as they come. And he's a talented orator.

When a president was elected with foreign policy experience, it was usually less about his foreign policy experience than other things.