Advisors Quote by Bob Woodward

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

— Winston Churchill

What links Donald Trump, Viktor Orban, Andrej Babis, Jaroslaw Kaczynski and Marine Le Pen is one simple character trait: hypocrisy. These politicians aren't tribunes…

— Anne Applebaum

I'd like to think that in a generation or two we'll have politicians whose life experience reflects that of the people who are voting…

— Billy Bragg

No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central…

— Roger Mudd

It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes.

— Anonymous

I think a lot of voters have certain cognitive dissidence. Donald Trump is getting social conservatives, economic conservatives, some Libertarian, some supply side conservatives,…

— Roger Stone

Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.

— Walter Lippmann

When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief…

— H. L. Mencken

A campaign adviser can change the outside appearance of the candidate, but the ideology and personality of the candidate remains the same.

— Mercedes Schlapp

There are a lot of things going on in politics at the moment which means that people can't concentrate on politicians' personalities and the…

— John Newman

“The people who explain politics for a living – the politicians themselves, their advisers, the media who cover them – love to reach conclusions…

— Sasha Issenberg

What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary…

— P. J. O'Rourke