Andrea Leadsom Quotes

We've been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We're just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it.

Lyndon Johnson was perhaps the greatest political arm twister in the country’s history.

When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.

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

It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.

The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president, is to get the people in the room and bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country and the state's greater interest ahead of their own personal partisan interest. That's what we did in New Jersey and that's the model for America.

There are no techniques in politics.

That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

If Mr. Obama wants to get things done, he must recognize that in Washington only the president has the power to make the first big move.

Obama considers himself above deal-making and back-slapping, political necessities he often delegates to Vice President Joe Biden and other lesser sorts.

At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?

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.

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

All legislation of any consequence is a compromise. You have to recognize that.

There is no area where experience matters more than in war and diplomacy.

The conference committee, that wonderful wrestling ring of compromise where House and Senate versions of bill are wrenched into law ...

Compromises may not make great heroes, but they do make great democracies.

You have to be a demagogue on a lot of little things if you want to be around to have your way on the big things.

The Congress is the place where ordinary mortals go about the business of compromise—of compromise that gets us through the day.

The President has to persuade Congress to do what they do not want to do.

That is a good bill. If you can beat it, go on and beat it, but you ought to give me a fair shake.

The Republican idea of a compromise is that they take only 90 percent of what they want and the Democrats get nothing.

Obama has been deliberative to a fault and an inveterate seeker of the middle ground.