Amit Shah Quotes

To be a party you have to have a national message.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. And if the cliches continue to ring true when the party governs, then that party and those cliches can change history.

I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.

I think when you look to the future what you'll find is that the Republican Party is building a bigger party base on stronger values.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

In our anxiety to get votes, we sometimes put in our platform things that are not orthodox.

You make a good politician, but you've got to develop a philosophy.

I don't believe the American people will uphold any political party that puts political exploitation above national interest. Surely we Republicans aren't that desperate for victory.

Support the most conservative candidate who is electable

What Republicans have to get away from is just worrying about the next election and start thinking about what is good for the country down the road.

All policy makers come with their own personal view of the world.

You have to have candidates who can actually win. The winners make policy; the losers go home.

The main aim of conservative politicians is to get through to the next election without being noticed. Nothing is more embarrassing to them than a person who claims not only to share their beliefs but also to be inclined to put them into practice.

A lot of folks look at the political calculation and then determine the policy. I think that's backward.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

In politics, you have to balance these things: what is good for the country, what is available, and what is possible.

The BJP decides its own policies.

It's said that once you win an election, that you win political capital, and that's kind of my intent, is to spend political capital on the Gulf Coast, among other areas.

The Conservative Party tries to avoid important but controversial issues of concern to Conservatives and Canadians in general. It is afraid to articulate any coherent philosophy to support its positions.

The politicians, they try to please everybody and when you want to please everybody, you won't please everybody. That's not my way of doing politics.

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

Politics is not a science...but an art.

In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.

Do you believe this is simply trickle-down Machiavellianism in much the same way that Communism trickled down as an aberration of its original intent?

[Ronald] Reagan seems to be a man of some basic convictions and on the other hand willing to let others do the ground homework, the detailed work.