Jon Tester Quotes

The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.

Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.

I regret that on my arrival in Mesopotamia I was too much occupied with military matters, and too ill-informed regarding the political problem….[We had] a scratch and somewhat incongruous team of administrators with the majority possessing little exact knowledge of the people they were called upon to monitor

You've never heard me talk about politics all that much, and it's just - I can't think of anybody more dangerous as president than Donald Trump. I can't think of anything worse than with him not having a clue. I mean, could you imagine somebody who doesn't read and doesn't learn trying to deal with the day-to-day changes and challenges of that job?

We're being taken advantage of because we have leaders who are incompetent. They don't even know. When I went out and told them you know in their trade deal they didn't even discuss the devaluation, they didn't even discuss it. At least they started discussing it, only because of me.

But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen.

There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies.

I don't really know any survival skills of any kind.

I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics.

I'm not smart enough and I don't know enough about what's going on.

The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim.

How does he support Clinton's urban agenda? He doesn't know what it is.

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.

Why, this fellow [Dwight D. Eisenhower] don't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday.

He did not live long enough to prove his incapacity for the office of President.

[General Charles George "Chinese"] Gordon, as a political figure was absolutely hopeless. He was so erratic, capricious, utterly unreliable, his mood changed so often, his temper was abominable, he was frequently drunk, and yet with all he had a tremendous sense of honor and great abilities.

Leading an uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.

We’re blessed here in Florida with a group of politicians who for the most part are putzes.

I don't know much about how things are done in politics.

Any 6 year old’s hindsight is better than a President’s foresight.

The generals don’t know much because they’re not winning,

I don't know anyone who voted today [in the Senate] who knew what he was voting on.

The more Scott Walker campaigns, the more he proves he is not intellectually fit for the office he's seeking. He asserts innocent ignorance on matters he should by now know something about - a way of masking his apparent bigotry.

I liked Trump's honesty because it was different and had a chance to change the business of politics. What I didn't realize he was missing at the time was a complete and utter lack of preparation, knowledge, and common sense.

The tragedy is that political leaders failed so badly at delivering what Iraqis clearly wanted - and for that, a great deal of responsibility lies with Prime Minister Maliki.