Rush Limbaugh Quotes

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.

Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?

I'd worked at the White House for two years, and I'd read a bunch of White House memoirs because everybody who works at the White House, even for five minutes, writes a memoir usually not less than 600 pages long - and never without the word 'power' in the title.

You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

I don’t know how to do what you have to do to get something out of a congressman.

The roots of power in the White House are often bourbon and branch water taken with the President at the end of the day.

Presidents have molded and been molded by all that happens here [Washington DC].

Political thought never develops in a vacuum; it is always highly responsive to the force of political events, even as it shapes those events in crucial ways.

Politics organizes our lives. We can't disregard it. Politics has lot of muck, lot of dirt. But that doesn't mean you have to be away from it. It's ubiquitous.

Most elected officials don't want you to know about the world of political fundraising because they fear that it paints an unflattering portrait of public life.

The average guy doesn't have an army of lobbyists and lawyers working on his behalf every day in the White House.

You can present people with ideas they may come to believe in, and as a result of them they will act, if they have the opportunities. Presenting people with opportunities is part of what politics is about.

There is a difference between being a political force, or a political apparent force or a potential force, and between a real discourse or a real argument.

Personally, having, you know, lived and worked in the White House, having been a senator, having been Secretary of State, there has traditionally been a great pool of very talented, hard-working people.

When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.

The problem with politics isn't the money; it's the power.

Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates. Yes, there are fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, who appear to be in charge of the White House at the moment, but they are very different from the Christian gentlemen who ran the British Empire and believed they were doing good works around the world. These days it's about naked power.

I worked for Hillary [Clinton] when I was young - when she was running for the Senate. I was fundraising and things, I see all of these people as political in a way that isn't humanistic. I'm just watching and hoping that someone is going to distinguish himself or herself as comprehending what we need.

Barack Obama said today that politics has become too gummed up by money and influence ... and then he had to leave to attend a fundraiser.

Hillary Clinton's been around for 30 years. Why do these stories need to be told? It isn't all of this widely known?

My father was prime minister, and to take care of his home, to be his hostess, automatically meant to have my hands in politics - to meet people, to know their games, their secrets.

I really don't think there's a world in which you can do anything with anybody. Because we're in the world of the White House, I think there are certain things you can do, and larger things that can happen, but I don't think you can do anything.

Putin is no different than any other powerful man, like a Senator, or a President.

I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.

The Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it.