Attributes Quote by Chuck Todd

Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate…

— Walter Lippmann

The traits in career politicians the public detests most are produced when ego triumphs over principle.

— Tom Coburn

Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual…

— Dee Dee Myers

All politicians, no matter how gifted, ultimately depend on circumstances for their success.

— Michael Wolff

Politicians live on lies and promises - but those promises are never fulfilled. Their only quality is that they can manage to befool people…

— OSHO

People think of politicians having true power, but that's less and less true. After all, they are often constrained or being edged into a…

— Bernard Arnault

What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put in a…

— H. L. Mencken

Every politician has a promising career. Unfortunately, most of them do not keep those promises

— Anonymous

Politicians are interesting people, most of them are smart and hard-working-I mean, they keep schedules no one else would think of keeping. Some of…

— Tucker Carlson

Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The successful politician owes his power to the fact that he moves within the accepted framework of thought, that he thinks and talks conventionally.…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“The other type of politician tends to be manipulative, selfish, and have unhealthy needs to be the center of attention. These people play games,…

— Richard L. Hughes