James McGreevey Quotes

You don’t become a statesman unless you are first a good politician.

It's interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.

I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician.

My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.

Men in political life must be ambitious.

A man’s got to walk if he is going to be in politics.

I have covered Pelosi for years, and always wondered how she learned to operate and excel in politics the way she does.

There's no better inside player than Nancy Pelosi, and I don't have any animosity towards her.

I've decided to get into active politics on Narendra Modiji's request. I don't know how successful I will be, but I'll give it my best shot.

Politics is ultimately not that complicated a profession; it's where the mediocre distinguish themselves.

I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work! I don't really have the personality for that.

There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all.

I'm only sort of a politician.

I think I went into poli-sci because I knew there was a stage, plus I thought I wanted to help people, and I realized in poli-sci that if you want to be a politician you're either born into it, or you've got an amazing brain, which those are rare - and I don't have one.

This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys.

There are no techniques in politics.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

First and foremost, when I think of him - I'm prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years - when I think of him, I think of him first and foremost as an idea politician.

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

When you are President you have to get something done, and that often means compromise.

I believe that [Bill] Clinton is the best tactical politician, certainly in my lifetime.

I say this in the utmost affection ... he has passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to become President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

We are hugely and sometimes willfully ignorant about the arts of politics and governing, especially about the utter necessity of compromise.

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.