Wilbur Ross Quotes

From my experience with 5 presidential elections, candidates sometimes say things when campaigning that they don't necessacerily do when they are governing.

When I hear Hillary Clinton talking about what she is planning to do, why hasn't she done it for the last 30 years?

You cannot take any statement very seriously when it is made in an election context.

Americans are used to the clatter of campaign promises hitting ground as they are thrown out the window.

How easy it is for a politician to forget that he is not usually saying anything at all.

There is always a gap between what candidates say in the heat of the campaign, when they are not constrained by the realities of governance, and how they act after being sworn into office.

There is a dangerous chasm between what those seeking election claim they could do in office and the stark reality that once in power the real decision-making has long since been sub-contracted elsewhere.

Plans without price tags are simply pandering.

Hillary Clinton wants their vote, and she does nothing, and then she comes back four years later.

You can't blame the administration and the Republicans for taking us back to deficits, for spending the Social Security surplus and assaulting the environment. That's what they promised to do in the last election.

Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises.

Hillary Clinton's all talk. It doesn't get done. All you have to do is take a look at her Senate run. Take a look at upstate New York.

The current budget that the Republicans are looking at never balances. How can that be fiscally responsible? And how can we look at the public with a straight face and say yes we ran on balanced budgets.

Liberals are good at catchphrases, but there's no substance behind them.

It's very easy for the candidates to talk about how conservative they are, how conservative they will be.

Politicians make a lot of promises when they are campaigning, and they come to towns, and people get enthusiastic about them coming to their communities. And then they don't fulfill the promises.

We do ourselves as politicians no favours if we are seen to peddle unachievable moonshine.

Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan to keep America safe is resonating with voters.

International politics attracts politicians who talk a good game, but whose achievements are often slender.

Rahul Gandhi has promised to remove poverty and unemployment. There is nothing new about the election promises of Congress. Had only half of those promises been fulfilled, India would have been the most prosperous country in the world today.

I hate to rain on anyone's parade or burst the enthusiasm bubble, but talk is especially cheap during an election season.

The good and the bad news is that politicians rarely do what they say they are going to do when they campaign.

Some people really expected he could do that, would do that. They're not expecting [Donald Trump] to target Hillary [Clinton], just to clean out the swamp.

Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

You watch people run for president, and a large part of what they say, they don't ever follow through on. But I don't think you can afford to wait on this [trade agreements].