Duff Green Quotes

Leadership is important in politics.

If you lose, you can't lead. If you don't lead, you're irrelevant. Winning is what it's all about in politics.

Politics is power, and communications is power,

Popularity has always been the key currency in choosing a president.

Any time you get into a presidential campaign and the stakes are so high, all candidates - they want to be in complete control whenever they can. And you can't blame them for that.

I know politics; I know the media.

A President cannot always be popular.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

In America, public opinion is the leader.

In politics, as in business, leadership is crucial.

There are no techniques in politics.

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.

You can’t win if you don’t play. The people who get involved in politics are more likely to get their way.

Towering over Presidents and State Governors, over Congress and State Legislatures, over conventions and the vast machinery of party, public opinion stands out in the United States, as the great source of Power.

Politics is the art of acquiring, holding and wielding power.

Roosevelt knew never to lose control of the majority of American opinion, unlike his greatest democratic contemporaries, Churchill and De Gaulle, who at times suffered spectacular rejections by their electorates.

There is something wrong with the way in which we make our decisions. The Government listen too much to the pollsters and the party managers. The trouble is that they are not even very good at politics, and they are entering too much into policy decisions. As a result, there is too much short-termism, too much reacting to events, and not enough shaping of events. We give the impression of being in office but not in power. Far too many important decisions are made for 36 hours' publicity.

Men in political life must be ambitious.

The people can never understand why the President does not use his powers to make them behave. Well all the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

In politics if the people give you popularity, the other politicians observe and give you power.

To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.

The First Lady has a lot of power. I hope Hillary Clinton realizes that.

I've been really at the highest levels of American political life.

Politics is all a matter of timing.

If Advaniji did not want, I would never have been Prime Minister.