Dick Durbin Quotes

Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.

Ah, political physics. Someone wins an election and, poof, they are a candidate for vice president. Ridiculous.

Politics at bottom is not all that complicated. It's all about timing.

There are no techniques in politics.

Some publicity-garnering Congressional investigations might redound to our political advantage.

Politics is all a matter of timing.

Trump's election was dispiriting and confounding to most traditional political players - perhaps nobody more so than Murdoch. Still, Murdoch did what he has always done: made sure he had maximum influence with the new president.

In politics things change, in politics timing is important, and in politics, how I move, I don't tell you.

You always hear that politics is a function of timing and pacing.

In politics, you make use of every opportunity.

Obamacare would never have passed without decades of massive immigration from the Third World. Liberals didn't change any minds - they changed the voters.

Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.

It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.

While Hillary Clinton meets only with donors and lobbyists, my plan was crafted with the input from Federal Immigration offices, very great people.

The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.

Some are arguing that the Democrats should resist at every turn [to Donald's Trump administration], and some Democrats are saying that's the strategy that Democrats should now employ.

Never give a good politician time to pray.

The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.

The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable victories. If you have the right policy and the right strategy, you always have a chance of winning. Without them, you can lose no matter how certain the victory seems.

It was the custom when men received nominations to come to me for contributions, and I made them and considered them good paying investments for the company. In a Republican district I was a strong Republican; in a Democratic district I was Democratic, and in doubtful districts I was doubtful. In politics I was an Erie Railroad man all the time.

I have observed in my 30 years in Washington that when a President initiates a major policy speech on a controversial issue while Congress is in recess, it usually is because what he is advocating is indefensible and that he is seeking to minimize criticism.

That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.

I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out.

It's interesting how identity politics and Ann Coulter-style tactics have now blossomed. But they were always there in CPAC.