Kinky Friedman Quotes

Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

I look for the consensus because the consensus drives the policy into new places.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

I'm the policy-maker; I'm the lawmaker.

You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

One cannot govern with 'buts'.

We don't need bipartisanship, we need application of principle.

I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.

I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

Governing is hard. If you’re in the majority, you’ve got to do the hard work of governing

When you are President you have to get something done, and that often means compromise.

He can't spend all his time running his mouth; he's got to run the country.

Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.

All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.

Do you know what it takes to get a good piece of legislation passed ... one that everyone agrees on? The egos. The turf battles.... It's incredible.

Governments propose, and oppositions dispose.

To govern is to chose.

The legislator commands the future.

Legislation is the art of compromise.