Andrew Shaffer Quotes

We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're quite clever. I've seen them pick people apart.

I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.

He has the best political mind of all the generals I have.

A political genius is a man ... who has accidentally been on the winning side in the last campaign and is about to be on the losing side.

Am I the only person covering politics who ever noticed that Newt Gingrich is actually a nincompoop?

I believe that there are certain things that could be taken care of that you don't need a strong political background in.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and I've survived this town for four years.

I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.

My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them.

For instance, Clinton who was unquestionably the smartest of the bunch I talked to - both the ones who made it and didn't. He had a great interest in policy.

Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To George Bush, thinking things through is for sissies.

I like to figure things out and solve problems.

To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.

Not only did I enjoy the creative side of Playboy and enjoy being surrounded by people who are curious about life, but I also love the analytical and hard business side of it.

I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be on your game; otherwise, she'd make mincemeat of you.

My ignorance of politics couldn't be matched by anybody in politics.

My opponent has all the intellectual rigor of an amoeba.

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.