Jamie Dimon Quotes

In the end, rational policy is always good.

When a president doesn't know the policy, it doesn't make for a very effective leader.

Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can't trump bad policy.

The issue isn't more or less government. It's dumb vs. smart government.

No government is better than the men who compose it.

Democracy sounded well and good, but its results are seen not to agree at all with its title. Monarchy, on the contrary, has an unpleasant sound, but is a more practical form of government to live under. For it is easier to find a single excellent man, than to find many of them.

What succeeds best politically does not always do so policy wise and vice versa.

However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.

Good policies need to come with good visions.

Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.

I don't want to be THE president, but I would like to have A president.

Never be easy for any president to deal with any Congress. But republicans got to work together. We got to get things done.

Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy.

We want very good leaders who have a lot of power.

It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

I learned that you have to evaluate the effects of public policy as opposed to intentions.

You know, there are certain things that make for good sound bites but don't always translate into good policy.

We have had good and bad Presidents, and it is a consoling reflection that the American Nation possesses such elements of prosperity that the bad Presidents cannot destroy it, and have been able to do no more than slightly to retard the public's advancement.

A politician can do what he thinks is right, he just has to be sophisticated in how he goes about it. Those who seek a president who 'will disregard the polls and just lead,' ask for the political equivalent of 'The Charge of the Light Brigade.'

He was a great president in his first term; in his second term, he wasn't the same Grover Cleveland he was to begin with. ...Cleveland reestablished the presidency by being not only a chief executive but a leader.

I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively.

I think strong rhetoric and strong action are two separate things. Anyone can use tough words. Anyone can go over the top and say things that sound strong. But sounding strong is not enough. You have to know exactly how you're going to do it. And if you look at some of the policies he's talked about, they would not make America stronger.

See the Congress' track record. It has taken the nation backwards. They keep talking about Rights. The Nation is tired of your Acts, the Nation needs action.

It's important to use executive orders. Every president since Washington has.

Those [presidents] who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually.