Political Liability Quotes

The thing political figures fear most is a terror event that will ruin their careers. The biggest thing they fear is that a bomb goes off and it can be traced to something they did or didn’t do, an action they did or didn’t support. They all fear being accused of not doing enough to keep the citizenry safe.

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.

The trouble with ghostwriting is that it raises the issue of whether the president is in a state of diminished responsibility for what he says. Does he actually grasp the implications of the words he speaks?

I went from merely being a political embarrassment to being a constitutional menace.

It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.

I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.

Obviously a candidate has to be held responsible for the words that come out of his mouth, regardless of where they came from.

I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom.

I am aware that if I do become the president, I, too, could be processed for any political wrongdoing.

No legislator ever got in trouble for voting against a bill that passed or for a bill that didn’t pass.

I could be wrong about that, and [Susan Rice ] may have really wanted [secretary of state place]. But now she has become a liability. If, in fact, it was legitimate. If [Barack Obama] wanted her and she wanted it, they've told her to go pound sand now, and that's purely because of Benghazi.

Things are changing so rapidly, it’s going to be a political liability in the near term for an individual to say “I oppose gay marriage.” Mark my words.

It's not that Michelle Obama is trying to conceal her true feelings, it's that she does not want to be a political liability to her husband.

Republicans would have preferred the court overturn the health care bill, an act that would have underscored Obama's biggest liability - the perception among voters, including those who like and trust him, that he has been ineffective.

Hillary Clinton has this problem. The more she's seen, the more she's heard, the worse she does. This is not arguable.

Running on corporate-PAC money is a huge liability.

The 'Post' seems to think my strong stance on illegal alien criminals will be a liability in my run for governor of Virginia.

Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable; he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate... Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis.

Mitt has a ton of consultants, and not one of them thought he needed a credible answer on Bain or taxes?