Hema Malini Quotes

Republicans are completely befuddled by Obama's 'star power' and don't seem to have a clear or effective strategy to compete.

[A prospective political candidate] should have a pleasing name, easy to pronounce and spell, and one suggesting statesmanship and Americanism, unless it is a name popular to nationalities and races among the electorate in his particular area.

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

People always thought I'd never get elected outside San Francisco; I was always more worried that I'd never get elected again inside San Francisco.

Tamil people are generally considered very intelligent. But there, politics runs in a different way. Movie stars have a larger-than-life image in Tamil Nadu, and people vote for that image.

The whole celebrity thing didn't work for Hillary Clinton. She tried that in her campaign and it failed.

The entertainment person gets a certain credibility, and the politician gets a certain notoriety. I'm against it.

I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed.

There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.

I think celebrity endorsements hurt politicians.

Janeane Garofalo ended up, in a sense, being pushed by the media into becoming a pundit.

I'm totally against the idea of a celebrity editor.

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

Pictures can be devastating. Who allowed John Kerry to get himself photographed windsurfing in a flowered swimsuit? Anyone in the real world in that operation?

There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren't any more qualified than the average man on the street.

Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.

I didn't go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest.

It's not about sizzle for me. I think it's fine. I mean, America made a decision in 2008 to go with a president who did have sizzle.

Nobody who ever runs for President should be the leader of a party.

The [TV evening] news usually defines the candidate for the public.

If you run for public office today you must be prepared for a massive invasion of privacy.

Mo [Congressman Morris K. Udall] is too funny to be President.

From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing.

Nixon is the last candidate who couldn’t make it on the Johnny Carson Show who could make it in an election.