Georgia Toffolo Quotes

I've always suggested if you can't stand the sight of your own blood, don't run for office.

The reality is I have a job as a national party chair that, one, requires a thick skin. It requires me to be able to absorb the body blows so our candidates can stay above the fray.

I know I'd be an absolutely horrendous politician.

Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.

Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up.

Politicians are not the most reflective people in the world.

In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness.

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer.

I'm absolutely fine with the rough and tumble of politics.

My goal was never to get re-elected.

I admire politicians. It is a really tough assignment, and I would fall at the first fence.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

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.

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

A Democrat has to show the toughness to govern. People don't doubt that Republicans will be tough.

In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You can't be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.

Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.

As I climbed the electoral ladder - from state assemblyman to mayor of Woodbridge and finally to governor of New Jersey - political compromises came easy to me because I'd learned how to keep a part of myself innocent of them.

Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.

I've been complimented enough and asked to run for various offices out here in Utah, but right now, I'm not interested. I don't know that I have the stomach for it.

Politicians who are not good counter-punchers usually become punching bags.

Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to become President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

Men in political life must be ambitious.

No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say "In spite of all!" has the calling for politics.