James Garner Quotes

I happen to believe that if we want to replace a lifetime politician like Barack Obama, who had no experience leading anything... We've got to nominate a leader if we're going to replace someone who is not a leader.

Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president.

John McCain knows as well as anyone that Sarah Palin has no business being anywhere near the Oval Office. I'm sorry, it's got nothing to do with the fact that she wears skirts - she's grossly unqualified.

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent.

I'm not a politician. I think that uniquely qualifies me to become president of the U.S.

Politicians are wither very good at running for office or they are good at running government. Seldom are the two found together.

You cannot bring inexperienced men ... into the government and expect the government to run well.

We’ve had members of the Senate who have been there 30 years and haven’t gotten good at it yet.

I don't think you run just because political opportunity is there. That's how we wind up with politicians who aren't ready for their jobs.

Political experience is political inefficacy.

I'm a businessman. I'm a former legislator, and I'm an executive. And I've been very effective in each one of those positions.

I was surprised to find so much distinguished talent among the subjects, and so little among the heads of the Government. It is a well-authenticated fact, that at the present day the most able men in the United States are very rarely placed at the head of affairs.

I think it is appropriate when you look at the test that you have to meet to be commander-in-chief for Americans to be thoughtful about, you know, who has the experience and the approach that is best likely to work.

You can be someone running...who is just a soaring leader of people. But if you don't have the finances down, you're going to have a problem.

There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government.

Now see, a lot of critics are saying Arnold can't get elected because he's just an ambitious guy with a famous name, who doesn't know anything about running the government. Didn't hurt George Bush.

We don't have good leadership. We don't have the right people. Everything's politically correct. We have a country that's lost its way. It's going to change.

I would love having the job of president because I know how to do it. I know what the country needs.

Clinton is a very capable, conscientious person. I think she cares very deeply about policy. She knows a lot about how the government works, and I think those things are very important. You don't really appreciate those things until you get a guy like George W. Bush in the White House, and then you realize that when you don't have someone who knows or cares about government policy, a lot of bad stuff can happen.

Running for the presidency's not an IQ test.

You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better.

Anyone can run for office. When I ran for Governor of Minnesota, the only requirement was that you had to be a state resident. I believe you had to be over thirty five years old, something like that. That's the way our country was founded. That anyone can run for office. That you're not required to be a lawyer, you're not required to be anything.