Handlers Quotes

Politics. Where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be a candidate themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

If victory has a hundred fathers, it also brings forth a hundred advisors.

The paid political campaign managers are the problem [with modern campaigns.] They are overpaid for doing the wrong things.

The outcome of an election depends on the candidate, not the people on the sidelines [advisors, handlers, etc.]

A political genius is a man ... who has accidentally been on the winning side in the last campaign and is about to be on the losing side.

I have a lot of really good handlers.

You have a lot of ideas …. I want them so I can test them.

I am Ronald Reagan.

There are two kinds of people. The smart people ... who sit around the table and kind of examine life. And then there are the other people—who run for public office, and some of the idiots like myself who are just in there fighting.

Counsel passes all things to him which thinketh to be a king.

Anything and everything at any given time is sort of the point I think. We're dealing in real situations and that's why we have our handlers there, to hopefully protect us from the bad, but yes; each show I think that sort of thing is going to go down because it's obviously not a perfect system and it's not a perfect world.

I’m not going to have any damn image experts coming telling me how to part my hair