Tip O'Neill Quotes

To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.

Republicans have to be relieved. Given all the bad news this White House has faced, at least the president's hemorrhaging has stopped.

On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.

Sometimes at night, when I leave and ride by the front of the White House and the lights are on, it is so beautiful, I have some sense of, 'Hey, that's where I work, and Jimmy is President now.' But day in and day out, it's a job.

I went to the White House, and met the president.. We in trouble

There is an assumption that everything the President—the White House does is for political electoral purposes.

I was deputy assistant to the president. My job was strategist in the office of the chief strategist, Stephen Bannon. Somebody once described me as the president's national security utility infielder.

I got to meet one Chief of Staff: Sam Skinner. He was Chief of Staff at the end of George Sr.'s White House.

I cannot think of a president or administration that has taken seriously the 100 days.

[Donald] Trump has many and one of the most obvious is right here in Washington.

The evil is in the White House at the present time.

The country wants the president and the Congress focused on jobs and the economy. Any regulation that the president promulgates that isn't focused on, I think, is a risk for him, and the same is true for Congress.

[I]nstead of spending your energy attacking the parts of the president's [health care] proposal you don't like, you can use it to strengthen the parts you do.

President Trump is going to keep the promises he made to the American people through decisive executive action and through legislation.

[Donald Trump] has had the good judgment and common sense to get back with all these people, who have written the legislation already.

Health care, it's going to be political. It's going to be, let's say, the confluence of the politics and the messy implementation.

During a recent press conference, former President Jimmy Carter said he could never run for president today because he doesn't have a lot of money. Well, that and the fact that he's the famously bad president Jimmy Carter.

If you think of big, legislative accomplishments, most of them kind of get initiated with the president putting something out there and Congress working on it.

President Obama is perhaps the smartest person I've ever worked with.

We are ready to deal with any President [of U.S], but of course, and I mentioned that, it depends on the readiness of the future Administration.

I am Congress; I'm president.

I'm going to use the White House and every tool at my disposal as your president to make the case that patriotism is profitable.

ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.

The politics, policies, the President [Barack Obama] and the American people are all pointing in the right direction to fix our immigration system and pass legislation this year.

President Obama and the congressional Democrats have certainly been responsive.