Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Quotes

The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

Rock stars generally don't last in the Senate, starting with John Kennedy. Too much work, too slow, too little juice. Getting something accomplished takes a remarkable amount of tedious work. Rock stars who become senators either run for something else or retire on the job. They certainly don't make a mark.

If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.

There is nobody that's ever going to fill Ted Kennedy's shoes, and that's a tall order for somebody in the family to try to live up to.

The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.

A statesman is a politician who’s been dead ten or fifteen years.

Donald Trump has to be respected.

The death of Malcolm Fraser underwrites a great loss to Australia... I always thought Malcolm would be around a lot longer. I must say, I wished he had been.

Every one must be familiar with the often expressed opinion, that, as a practical politician, Mr. Mill's career was essentially a failure.

The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation.

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

Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.

You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.

John Quincy Adams ranks with Jimmy Carter on the roster of ex-presidential redemption. Instead of completing a biography of his father, he let himself be elected to the House, where he spent nine terms in Whiggish opposition to the Democrats, supporting a national bank and a protective tariff and internal improvements.

I think Newt Gingrich has a proven track record of changing Washington and getting results.

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.

[Summarizing his political career:] Just say I was sober and I meant to do every damn thing I did

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

If you go with me on this one, 200 years from now, school will only remember the names of two great Republicans, Lincoln and Dirkson.

We offer more than a program; we offer a man [Richard M. Nixon] to carry it out.

He was born to be a senator. He never said anything important, and he always said it sonorously.

Bobby Kennedy is pathetic as a senator.

I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.

Sometimes a President seems greater after he has left office than while he was in it.