Elizabeth Emken Quotes

I think when you've been a career politician for 34 years you have to run on your record.

I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.

John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.

Some critics complain that Gary Hart doesn't have any experience in foreign policy. But that's not true. Why, just yesterday he had breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.

I've never listed my education degree as why people should vote for me. I think the average person is thinking more about what I've accomplished in my professional career and what I've accomplished in my career as a legislator.

Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at her next wedding in a white gown.

Personally, having, you know, lived and worked in the White House, having been a senator, having been Secretary of State, there has traditionally been a great pool of very talented, hard-working people.

I've been critical of Hillary Clinton and [Barack] Obama, for sure. But John McCain had a proven record as a senator. He also ran for president [in 2016]. But he got a lot of stuff done while he was a United States senator and still does.

The fact is that in England so many of our politicians are career politicians - they've always been politicians since they left their education. And in the old days of course politicians used to be fish mongers or doctors or whatever. They'd lived life. These days, power seems to go to the hands of people that that's all they've done. And I'm not sure that's a good thing, because it does remove them from the realities of life.

Francois Hollande is an intelligent man. I do not have a problem with him. The only thing is, he has never held office at the state level. Honestly, can you imagine Francois Hollande as president of France? Imagine it!

When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies.

I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular.

In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California.

I've been in Parliament since 1983, and I've been involved in many issues over the time.

I've been a speaker. I've been a majority leader. I've been a minority leader. Those are the sort of things I don't need any more.

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

I... grew up in politics and I used to work for the Democratic Party.

He's a terrible politician, but he makes a fine senator and public servant.

I say this in the utmost affection ... he has passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation.... What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.

I see more clearly than ever, and I thought I saw before, that congressional life is not the best introduction to the President's house. Great and fully equipped as the general [James Garfield] is, there are embarrassments growing out of his long and brilliant career in Congress, which Jackson and Lincoln, and Grant, and myself, escaped.

Bobby Kennedy is pathetic as a senator.

I have covered Pelosi for years, and always wondered how she learned to operate and excel in politics the way she does.

When a president was elected with foreign policy experience, it was usually less about his foreign policy experience than other things.

Jill Stein does not have the experience necessary to lead at a national level.