Ted Baillieu Quotes

Forty-eight hours is a long time in politics

A week is a long time in politics. A month is an eternity.

A week is a long time in politics.

Four years is a long time in politics.

The cliche in American politics is that one week is an eternity.

Politics is pretty much an up and down business

In politics, sunny days and rainy days can change very quickly.

A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.

You never know what'll happen in politics.

Nothing in American politics is forever.

Timing is very important in politics.

The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.

I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.

Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.

I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.

It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

Politics is cyclical.

Washington is unpredictable these days.

What can equal the caprices of politics?

Tectonic shifts in American politics take time—often a long time.