It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
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We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
I believe a democracy needs men and women of conviction in its positions of leadership in order for us to succeed. That's the subject of 'A Perfect Candidate,' a film I made 20 years ago about Oliver North and Charles Robb.
The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.
Numerically, half of our high-ranking government officials should be women, and half should be men. And yet the division between the sexes is highly disproportionate in favour of men.
No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
By definition, the person who learns enough to become the nominee is almost certainly the best person for the general election.
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