John Foster Dulles Quotes

[Thomas] Dewey's view was that if he made no mistakes he would win So we sat around making sure he would make no mistakes. And I think we succeeded, but in fact that isn't the way it went. [Dewey lost]

You see before you the former future Secretary of State.

I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers.

I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians.

Truman will be the winner.

We have all seen Washington politicians fail us.

Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.

Politics makes me sick.

What George W. Bush learned in his pre-presidential years - and what he omits in his new memoirs - was not how to lead a nation, but how, with sufficient toughness, to cheat the democratic system to get elected.

Everyone I vote for never wins. Welcome to America.

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.

People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen.

I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.

People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right.

There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.

The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.

I came to Congress hoping to change the world; I now hope to be able to leave with my dignity.

It hurts to lose an election.

DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN

Unpack.

... he [Thomas E. Dewey] is a political streetwalker accosting men with "come home with me dear.