George H. W. Bush Quotes

I wanted to be a senator from Illinois. I was obsessed with politics. My dad was friends with a lot of local politicians, so I would hang out with them on Election Day and hand out buttons. Somehow, even though they were opposite, I loved Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. I thought they were the coolest guys!

I always thought that Grover Norquist had a - he really is a true ideologue, in every sense of the word.

I admire Grover Norquist. I think he's done a lot of good.

Politics has been called the “art of the possible,” and it actually is a realm akin to art insofar as, like art, it occupies a creatively mediating position between spirit and life, the idea and reality.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

If you look on the Republican side, the two Republicans who have most energized young people in modern times are Ronald Reagan and Ron Paul.

I know that we have to get in there and do something if we want to change the system and get a better government. But the whole task is very daunting. If I join either the Congress or the BJP, I will be forced to follow their systems and then I may not be able to do anything significant to change things.

I was quite young when my dad went into politics but, as it went on, I became self-conscious about it.

People close to me personally, politically, have expressed frustration that I'm not the political animal that they wish that I were.

I started thinking about getting into politics when David Cameron became leader.

Politics is too big a game to feel the absence of a Kamal Haasan.

Life is politics.

Look, politics can be tough.

Florida A&M University was my first real introduction to politics as a heavyweight game.

I don't work for Club For Growth or Heritage.

Obama and Clinton make an interesting contrast in brands.

Bill Weld and Paul Cellucci are my political role models.

We grew up in my family thinking that politics was a really fascinating way to spend one's career and a way to be involved in the issues of the day. And certainly, my father and my relatives really loved all that.

Too great a love for the presidency has caused Democrats to neglect state and local politics and to overly prize compromise and a futile quest for bipartisanship. It has made liberals too allergic to federalism and too shy about grassroots politics.

She's going to do what her donors want. That's who Nancy Pelosi is. Not remotely progressive.

There are far too many politicians out there who take the wrong position and stick with it and never admit that they should do something different.

The name Noel Skelton is largely forgotten today, but his legacy in the Conservative Party in the 20th century was enormous.

I don't really regard myself as a political figure.

I have no political aspiration.

You don't enter politics when you come to parliament. I was getting politics for breakfast, dinner and tea when I was a little kid.