Political Mediocrity Quotes

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

We’re blessed here in Florida with a group of politicians who for the most part are putzes.

Thus it comes about that (with some few exceptions) we have a House of Commons composed of a number of mediocrities who are content to echo the shibboleths of their party, to vote like sheep and to respond to the crack of the party whip.

I used to love politics. I can't say I do any more. All the fun has gone out of it. Each side is engaged in this trench warfare of managerialism. They're all too scared to say anything that might make them appear something other than completely bland.

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate?

I think Nigerians got it wrong from independence as people became so conscious of the divisions because we wanted so much to satisfy the plurality of interests. I will say, we neglected the importance of real value, human value and the quality of potential in human beings and we contrived phrases like geographical spread, regional quota, etc and allowed mediocrity to reign. I think that is the problem that we are dealing with till today.

You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.

The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He likes his candidate to be sensible, vigorous, and, above all, what he calls 'magnetic,' and does not value, because he sees no need for, originality or profundity, a fine culture or a wide knowledge.