Adrian Anthony Gill Quotes

You never know whether you're elected because people know who you are or people don't know who you're are.

When you have an incumbent President, reality trumps argument.

In politics, name recognition matters a lot.

I'm really interested in how we view the public figure, what makes a public figure, what makes a celebrity, and how images make politicians, so I take an interest in politics, but it's really an interest in the image.

The single biggest weakness that politicians have as a group is that they want people to like them.

Before some things can be politically expedient, they must first become popular.

You know, I guess I'm like any other political figure: Everybody wants to be loved.

I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience, usually, the public gets it right.

Don't get mad. Don't get even. Get elected.

If you want to go into politics, first get your name known.

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

The modern politician is less interested in being a hero than a superstar. Heroes walk alone; stars derive their status from approbation.

Roosevelt, if he had lived, would probably have been unbeatable, despite the inevitable reaction against the war. He was so expert a demagogue that it would have been easy for him to divert the popular discontent to some other object. He could have been beaten only by a demagogue even worse than he was himself.

Politics is television and whoever masters it is likely to win.

I think politicians and movie actors … are similar in more ways than they’re different. There is an egocentric quality about both; there is a very sensitive awareness of the public attitude, because you live or die on public favor or disfavor. There is the desire for publicity and for acclaim, because, again, that’s part of your life... And in a strange and bizarre way, when movie actors come to Washington, they’re absolutely fascinated by the politicians. And when the politicians go to Hollywood, they’re absolutely fascinated by the movie stars. It’s a kind of reciprocity of affection by people who both recognize in a sense they’re in the same racket.

They want what every first term administration wants—a second term.

The losing side is comforted, I think, by this idea of magical gurus [masterminding the opponent’s campaign], because it’s less disconcerting than the fact that people just didn’t like them very much.

You have to have candidates who can actually win. The winners make policy; the losers go home.

In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.

I know I'm not popular with all the people. Remember, I am 'cruel' or a 'pharaoh.' That's all right. In politics, you get called all types of names.

In politics, it's more fun to win than it is to lose.

A lot of people in America don't know me, and that's something I have to overcome.

Whenever I meet people, they call me Bittu of Stree or Omkar of Dangal. And I believe not many people know that I'm the brother of Ayushmann.

We're just actors, man, just part of things. We're just doing our jobs, like everyone else does their jobs. The adulation for us is much more because we are always in the public eye. But I never became an actor because I wanted people to scream out my name.

I was always a little skeptical of how voters would react to my name.