Era Quote by Steve Kornacki

Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously.

— Jean Chretien

It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.

— Aaron Rodgers

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

— Tom Coburn

The Supreme Court nominations [example]. I mean, the fact that Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republicans, was able to just stop a nomination…

— Barack Obama

Career politicians have become increasingly more ineffective.

— John E. James

Politicians never fade away; they just keep carrying on, you know, their class.

— Paul Keating

Let's say Donald Trump loses but it's close. That could change the whole way the job of being a politician shifts - that to…

— Chuck Klosterman

In the 00s, it was often claimed that political apathy had replaced political participation. Membership of political parties and electoral turnout were both said…

— Owen Jones

You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system.…

— Michael Beschloss

People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no…

— Dennis Kucinich

It's one of the reasons [professional politicians] why people's confidence in the electoral system has declined so much. They have all become shadowy political…

— Geoffrey Howe

I've worked on enough campaigns to know that the most aggrieved candidate rarely emerges victorious.

— James Carville