Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly.
The name 'Charmageddon' actually comes from a social technique that I use. Which is, you know, literally obliterating people with charm so that you can get away with saying stuff that no one else could ever get away with, you know?
I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.
I'm pretty smart with boys. I know how to handle them and I know what to do around them.
Can't you... I don't. Find a hobby or something?" "Being charming is my hobby.
Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth.
In a way I think Bill Clinton is more likely to forgive and move on or at least try to woo people who don't love him. But he never really tried to woo the press as much as he might have.
I don't see myself as extremely handsome. I just figure I can charm you into liking me.
I'm very flirtatious, and I enjoy it.
I'll flirt with anyone from garbagemen to grandmothers.
If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
The first thing I’m going to do is go to Israel and court Premier Begin’s wife like she was an 18-year-old schoolgirl. Then I’ll go to Egypt and court Sadat’s wife the same way. One of those ladies is going to turn around in bed to her husband and say: ‘You know, that little Bobby Strauss is not such a bad guy. Why don’t you do something nice for him?’
He was instrumental in setting up the Camp David peace meeting between Sedat and Begin.
Reagan refused to demonize his foes. Instead he charmed them, with a few exceptions, including Tip O'Neill, the Democratic Speaker of the House and the embodiment of the liberalism Reagan sought to reverse.
I like to play around a lot. I would always flirt with the girls in the office and everybody just hanging around, sweet talk.
Glibness will get your anywhere.
I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction.
A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.