Ron Fournier Quotes

The campaign is over. It's time for the work of governing to begin.

The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.

You can’t govern a country on charisma.

You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.

Obama and his associates are fantastic campaigners but have little ability or skill to govern.

I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.

There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.

A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it by using it.

I was elected to carry forward my overall vision for the city.

The success of an elected official is doing what everyone knows needs to be done.

What's important is that, come the general election, people think the right things of you. They think that you've got the right values and the right policies. And that you're the right kind of person to lead the country.

There is a paradox in politics that what it takes to get elected is not necessarily what it takes to govern, and my feeling is that trying to control things too much feels icky to me.

In order to govern, you have to win.

I cannot think of a president or administration that has taken seriously the 100 days.

President Obama makes fantastic stump speeches, but putting together an actual agenda is more complicated.

I don't want to be the mayor of New Jersey.

Campaigning and governing are two very different activities, and there is no reason to assume that how Trump conducted the former will dictate how he approaches the latter.

David Cameron's message of change, optimism and hope is in tune with what Britain wants today

We have moved from an age in which government leaders sought to do what was best for the people to one in which the political leadership is convinced it knows what is best for the people, whether they like it or not.

I don't think we do a great job in America any more of distinguishing between campaigns and governance. We live in an environment that's all campaign all of the time and it's helpful, now that we've moved beyond a campaign and an election to get into a governance posture.

I don't get asked a lot of questions about who is the best political candidate or what my position is on what the Senate is about to do.

The stuff that I propose are things that I'm ready to govern with. They're not tools to get elected. They are programs and plans to do when you get elected.

We created a new democratic Croatia, ... The HDZ is the strongest party in Croatia, and it achieved this not because of us politicians but because of you, the people of Croatia.

I would suggest to you, what we need to do is assert a stronger leadership at the national level to support law enforcement.

Fred is officially the mayor of Portland now.