Hillary Clinton Quotes

Territorial Governors -- are nothing but politicians who go out to the outskirts of countries and suffer the privations there in order to build up stakes and come back as United States Senators.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Washington has political power combined with the insider illusion of being in control.

When you come down to the short strokes in Washington DC, you have to have power.

In politics if the people give you popularity, the other politicians observe and give you power.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.

I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.

People like to do politics with me, and they like to do business.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

My fate is to be President of the Republic - or leader of the opposition.

If you lose, you can't lead. If you don't lead, you're irrelevant. Winning is what it's all about in politics.

Towering over Presidents and State Governors, over Congress and State Legislatures, over conventions and the vast machinery of party, public opinion stands out in the United States, as the great source of Power.

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

My God. What is there about this place [the White House] that a man should ever want to get into it?

I had been in the administration long enough to know that Cabinet rank meant nothing.

You don't make new friends in the White House.

Men in political life must be ambitious.

Money speaks louder than words in Washington.

… lobbyist-larded Washington

To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.

I never had a political power base.

It's very interesting how Washington works. It's not about speeches. It's about relationships.