Ryan Zinke Quotes

Half of this business is politics. As real estate developers, it's our job to go in there and get beat up.

Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.

Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.

I'm not going to lie to you: being Speaker of the State Assembly is the best job I've ever had in my entire career. But you know, I got into politics 'cause I wanted to make a difference, and I was always raised that one person could make a difference.

It's interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.

The art of politics is knowing what to do next.

I believe we should appeal to people at the higher levels.

What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.

I've been dealing with politicians all my life. All my life. And I've always gotten them to do what I need them to do.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

Obama does seem to have what both FDR and Lincoln had, which is the recognition that you have to hold back at times and then wait to come forward.

Nothing beats a private visit to Number Ten or Chequers to take the wind out of rebellious sails.

The capacity to persuade is an essential part of being a great leader.

Politics is about the persuasion required to move people to judgment.

A pragmatic sense of what will and will not play politically is a critical skill of a negotiator.

Politics is a messy business, but campaigning prepares you for governing. It prepares you to get hit, stand strong, and, if necessary, hit back.

Leadership is important in politics.

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'

I've always thought Anne-Marie Slaughter would make a fantastic United States Senator or something. She's a real intellectual, but she's got enormous communicative skills and she's got government experience. The thing that drives me slightly crazy is the way we think about intellectuals as wooly, hopeless, arrogant, self-deceived, incapable.

I don't want to come to Washington to be just another vote. I want to lead on issues that are important.

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

I always told people in the private sector, 'You can be the smartest person in the world, you can have the very best ideas, but if you can't sell them and you can't get other people to work with you, you're not going to succeed.'

Power is getting things done without having to demonstrate that you can bulldoze it through. I'm most effective when I've studied an issue, when I can make a credible argument, and then bring people along.

I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.

President Obama thinks he can use emotion to bring pressure on Congress. But that's not how adults with power respond to things.