Jack Kingston Quotes

Governor Granholm had all the right values but didn't have the right background.

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

And I remember looking at Gray Davis and, you know, Gray is the consummate political operative.

When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies.

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

Talent is really important in politics, but experience is also really important.

He's a nice guy who will never change the Senate. He is the Senate. Eighteen years in politics, and he's got two cousins who are senators, too. Mark Udall's dad even ran for president.

Poor Rahul Gandhi doesn't know the ABCD of Karnataka politics.

I am not a fan of Mitt Romney, but I admit that he is, politically speaking, a good candidate for president. He has no personal baggage. He's as handsome as they come. And he's a talented orator.

I know more world leaders on the stage today than anyone running, with perhaps the exception of Hillary Clinton.

Marriage is no substitute for political experience.

I like the House. The House is where you can effect the most change. It's such a fast-moving dynamic body compared to the Senate.

I'm president of the Senate. I'm not a neophyte when it comes to understanding political alignments and misalignments.

My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them.

I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.

The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.

In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.

Politicians are wither very good at running for office or they are good at running government. Seldom are the two found together.

You're going to find that, intellectually, the [governors] as a whole are a cut or two above what they were 10 or 20 years ago.

No particular prior experience—not business or academia, or think tanks, or law—suggests that an individual will master the bureaucratic politics of Washington DC.

I have covered Pelosi for years, and always wondered how she learned to operate and excel in politics the way she does.

When a president was elected with foreign policy experience, it was usually less about his foreign policy experience than other things.

When one has retired from the ranks of American domestic political consulting, as I have, you are not really allowed to just quit. You become emeritus, of counsel, senior status, and God knows what.

The problem is Donald Trump was an outsider to politics. He really didn't have a team of seasoned political veterans around him who had worked together and knew how to work together and get something done.