Martin O'Malley Quotes

House Speaker John Boehner and presumed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell understand the art of politics.

Democrats, more often than not, do not play the game of politics correctly.

Politics isn't just about doing the right thing. It's also about winning.

One of the things I give Nancy Pelosi a lot of credit for is that she's able to get things passed and hold her members together because she shows us that she's doing everything possible to get our views into these bills.

Too often ... in statecraft the object is to reach an agreement, which is only sometime—not always—the way to reach a result.

You have to be a demagogue on a lot of little things if you want to be around to have your way on the big things.

To secure the ground we gain, and gain what more we can, is, I think, the wisest course

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

I'm well aware of the pragmatism of politics.

If you're a politician, you can see there might be times when, to secure the greater good, you have to take a backwards step. That is a matter of tactics.

The result may not be perfect. But our forefathers wanted us to compromise to get things done for America.

America can't go sideways anymore.

You move forward because thats the way it works; thats the only place you can go.

He seemed to be waiting for me to move forward. Weren't we all.

You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.

Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

It was the only way to progress, to stop.

Information upon points of practical politics.

Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life!

People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.

Politics is about moving forward, looking forward.

Let's move forward and fix America's problems.

Where you stand today does not matter; it is the direction in which your are moving, and the rate at which you travel, that count.

To stand still is to regress.