Dorothy Bush Koch Quotes

A most wretched custom is our electioneering and scrambling for office. Misserima omnimo est ambitio honorumque contentio.

I always say that campaigning and governing are two different things.

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.

The single biggest weakness that politicians have as a group is that they want people to like them.

In our form of democracy the expression of the popular will can be effected only through the instrumentality of political parties.

To be a politician must not be a pleasure always.

From my experience with 5 presidential elections, candidates sometimes say things when campaigning that they don't necessacerily do when they are governing.

I love being a parliamentarian. I love it but I don't like politics. And I hate elections.

Politics is a tough business.

Campaigning is different from governing.

There's a very big difference between campaigning and governing.

The challenge has been, we make policy in the world of politics.

Governing is one thing, campaigning is another - and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union.

I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores.

I've been in a lot of elections.

There are a lot of politicians who are just obstructionists.

At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

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

…the Senate, a small body of egos…

The best, most interesting years of my life were spent in government and politics.

I hold them [politicians] in contempt for the reason that they enact laws, further social engineering, do anything to get elected, couldn't care less about the wishes of the people and make horrible mistakes along the way when they do get in office. If there is anyone the most ignorant about issues it is a politician. A plague on all their houses!

An elected representative is not tied in any substantial way to particular policies, whatever the preferences of the electorate. Influence on the politician is greatest at the time of election. Once elected, the representative is released from popular control but continues to be exposed to powerful pressure groups, especially corporations, state bureaucracies and political party power brokers

On any big issue in government there are always going to be disagreements.