John Dickerson Quotes

You never know what'll happen in politics.

In politics the future is never a straight line projection of the present.

I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

I never predict anything, and I never will.

It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

The cliche in American politics is that one week is an eternity.

A week is a long time in politics. A month is an eternity.

There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Forty-eight hours is a long time in politics

You never know what's going to happen in the future.

Certainty in politics is never a given.

Who knows what the heck the future will bring.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.

When we speak of the morrow nothing is ever certain.

History shows you don't know what the future brings.

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

I did not know what my future was going to hold.

Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about something terrible.

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.

It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.

More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences.

You never know what's going to happen with television these days.