H. D. Kumaraswamy Quotes

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

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.

Politics means competition, especially in senior positions. If you don't know that, you're not especially suited to politics.

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

First and foremost, when I think of him - I'm prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years - when I think of him, I think of him first and foremost as an idea politician.

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

You don’t become a statesman unless you are first a good politician.

A politician rises on the backs of his friends ... but it is through his enemies he will have to govern afterwards.

Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors.

There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.

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.

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

He has the best political mind of all the generals I have.

I believe that [Bill] Clinton is the best tactical politician, certainly in my lifetime.

Clinton was the most formidable politician I have ever encountered.

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.

Politics is ultimately not that complicated a profession; it's where the mediocre distinguish themselves.

I hear from people all the time and it infuriates me that 'President Obama's a brilliant politician.' No he absolutely is not.

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

Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.

In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

Experience counts in government even more than in business.

I know I'd be an absolutely horrendous politician.

People who know Paul Ryan say, 'He will be president one day.'