Thomas Huxley Quotes

I admire politicians. It is a really tough assignment, and I would fall at the first fence.

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.

I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things.

My approach to politics is very serious. It must be handled by great people with extraordinary skills and human qualities. I feel I don't have qualities of that sort.

Politics was put in front of me. I do politics because it's the vehicle for change and because I happen to be good at it... I had this sort of calm fearlessness, that some would call foolishness.

The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.

A Democrat has to show the toughness to govern. People don't doubt that Republicans will be tough.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

I admire people who come to politics because it takes a lot of courage to be in politics in India.

Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder.

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.

Forget the consultants, the pundits and the pollsters; good policy is good politics.

I've been complimented enough and asked to run for various offices out here in Utah, but right now, I'm not interested. I don't know that I have the stomach for it.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable, the art of the next best.

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

The statesman wishes to steer, while the politician is satisfied to drift.

No man can be a politician except he be first a historian.

I am sure of my ability to form a good government.

Politics is a lot tougher than physics.

Vajpayee had a much bigger stature than Mr Modi. He knew how to run a coalition government very successfully.

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

The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.

I ran for president. I ran for governor twice. And I've been the governor now for nearly seven years. I find that the people who are my best advisors are the people who are smart enough to give me really good advice and smart enough to keep their mouths shut about what advice they give me. And so if I want advisors that way, that's the kind of advisor I'm going to be for Donald Trump.

Politics is the science of urgencies.