Dave Barry Quotes

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

We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.

Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

In politics, as in business, leadership is crucial.

I know a few expressions. I know what Hilary Clinton basically says in Russian when you translate her into Russian over and over and over is, 'izvinite pozhaluista.' That's, 'excuse me please, excuse me please.' Let's reset things. That's not the way you deal with folks. You show strength if you made a mistake.

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

What is politics but business?

Politics is about explanations.

Beyond going around doing things as Secretary of State, you have to recognize that you had managerial responsibilities.

Politics is the art of making wha appearts to be impossible possible.

The BJP is not a party dependent on a single individual, nor is it tied to the apron strings of a family.

Politics is a lot tougher than physics.

No matter what you may think about her politics or her record, Hillary Clinton understands that this is not reality television; this is reality. She understands the job of president. It involves finding solutions, not pointing fingers; and offering hope, not stoking fear.

When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

It isn't personal per se to document what the Republican Party leadership is doing and how they're abrogating actual leadership.

The fundamental question is is the Conservative Party leadable

Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive.

A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.

Military action without politics is like a tree without a root.

There is no diplomacy like silence.

The Republicans are the party of bad ideas. The Democrats are the party of no ideas.

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.'

Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life.