Best Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won't stay unless they see real career options.

— Anonymous

The best politician is the politician who says what the people are thinking already.

— Tom Suozzi

I don't think that politics attracts the best and the brightest of America. It doesn't attract the most sincere people.

— Dick Murphy

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.

— Harry S. Truman

Our best people don't go into politics.

— Henry Steele Commager

You have to be an optimist to be in politics.

— Barbara Boxer

For instance, Clinton who was unquestionably the smartest of the bunch I talked to - both the ones who made it and didn't. He…

— Robert Scheer

People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I am the first to admit that I am not the greatest campaign strategist or political analyst.

— Tom Tancredo

The strange rejection of the expert is mind boggling to me. When we're told that the worst word in politics is 'elite,' I have…

— Craig Mazin

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I learned early that business is business and politics is politics. The proof is how few important businessmen have made good politicians. They may…

— Jean Chretien