Jack Germond Quotations

Mo Udall didn't want the presidency bad enough. He was too sane. He was a marvelous guy, but you had the feeling there was another Udall outside his body watching the candidate Udall who was too extravagant, telling him to cut it out.

Everyone I know thinks television is the most important part of my life. I did it for the money! I was able to send my daughter to college.

Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.

Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.

The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.

I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.

My liberal friends are such a bunch soft-headed, politically correct jerks...

Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

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?

I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.