Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.
All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.
The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.
I don't think that politics attracts the best and the brightest of America. It doesn't attract the most sincere people.
We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.