David Broder

“Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.”

“When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every thinking man' they mean fools who flatter themselves.”

“My definition of a horse-race journalist is somebody who sees politics as a game and describes it in terms of who's ahead, who's behind, who's going to win.”

“Never trust a politician who doesn't like to talk politics.”

“The voters are not fools.”

“We deal in the main with the words of politicians. We are the carriers of their messages.”

“The longer I am in this business, the more I respect the good sense of the American people.”

“What has happened to the good old-fashioned statesman? He has become a politician.”

“Washington is a place where people are always looking for the next big thing.”

“This is a contest between a genius and a mediocrity, and the genius is losing.”