Draft Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

Politicians should not be trying to pick their voters. The voters get to pick who represents them.

— Raphael Warnock

This is America. We pick our leaders through democratic politics - ballot boxes, campaign stops, and good old-fashioned retail electioneering. It's a system that…

— Lara Trump

To me, political office should be like jury duty. You should just get a notice in the mail one day and say, 'Aw, sh…

— Wanda Sykes

In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

— Karl Rove

The decision to serve needs to be independent of your politics.

— Pete Buttigieg

My point is you've been given a powerful blessing in life in this country to be able to vote and to be able to…

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved.

— Ronald Reagan

A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United States be…

— H. L. Mencken

“A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United States be…

— H.L. Mencken

Politics is not how you vote, it is how you live. It is not how you choose, but how you think.

— Nancy Fox

I don't pick on politicians. They ain't done nothin'.

— Red Skelton

We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're…

— Mark Thomas