William F. Buckley Jr. Quotes

Senator Richard Lugar is a towering figure in Hoosier history and one of the greatest statesmen ever to serve in the U.S. Senate.

Probably the most effective legislator we've ever had.

My father [Pandit Nehru] was a statesman. I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him, he is a statesman.

No man can be a politician except he be first a historian.

A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

The art of politics is knowing what to do next.

Now I have known Sen. Bill Frist, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, since he was born.

I look at the Senior Al Gore that I had the chance to serve in the Senate with. A great human being. He went down to defeat to this right wing bunch back at the time.

I can't get inside the head of a politician today.

My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

I think the problem with President Obama - and I like him personally, I came into the Senate with him - is his agenda.

The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.

And I remember looking at Gray Davis and, you know, Gray is the consummate political operative.

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 didn't get to the Senate by accident.

I cannot dislike him [Gerald R. Ford] personally—he's cordial and gracious. But he's consistently wrong and consistency is a virtue of small minds. He's never proposed a constructive solution to anything.

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

Politics. Where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be a candidate themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

He [Aneurin Bevan] will be as great a curse to this country in peace as he was a squalid nuisance in time of war.

A good politicians knows his friends and a good politician knows his enemies.

I don’t think you’d call the President political.