Hamilton Jordan Quotes

I'm not very big on politics. I'm a comedian and not that smart. I don't have the mind capacity for it.

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

After thinking carefully about how I can best help my fellow Minnesotans, I have decided to not seek election for a different office in 2014. The warm encouragement from many people to run for U.S. senator or the governorship was deeply humbling.

I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

I love Karl Rove. He elected Bush.

My theory on politics is no one really knows how it works, so I choose not to comment on stuff too outside of my league.

There is a lot of noise and conflict in our political discourse, which is fun to cover, but I'm convinced from my travels that people also thirst for more details as well as insight and context.

I know too much about British politics to comment on British politics.

I probably enjoy campaigning more than most other people in public office because I like people and I enjoy going out there and telling people what I've done.

The John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics was originally intended to bring scholars and politicians into closer contact, on the assumption that other office-holders can use academics as profitably as Kennedy did during his political career.

I'm pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

I don't know anything about politics. I wouldn't put too much into my prediction on politics.

I'm a political junkie.

Now that I'm a political pundit, I have the ability to influence people.

I think everyone knows how much of a joint effort being in politics is. It requires all kinds of sacrifices and all kinds of support.

I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.

I was through as a manager. I did become involved late in the 1968 campaign at the national scene at the last minute. But I was through as a manager, and I've stayed through, incidentally.

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

I am not satisfied with the quality of our political intelligence.

Science is my passion; politics, my duty.

I am a political human being. I have - that's one of my interests. I studied political science in college. I was actually going to get my Ph.D. in poli-sci. And a lot of my material from early on in my career dealt with politics, so I've always considered myself as somebody who enjoys political humor. So I'm not going to stop.

I get paid to talk politics, which I've done my entire life and I would do for free anyway.