Peter Hitchens Quotes

In politics you can't afford to be too knowledgeable about things like that.

Having studied politics doesn't necessarily give you political nous.

I believe that there are certain things that could be taken care of that you don't need a strong political background in.

I have never found, in a long experience in politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

If my son enters politics, I will be able to guide him. He too would have learnt a lot from watching me, so he is less likely to make mistakes.

We are not politically naive.

I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.

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.

He has the best political mind of all the generals I have.

To tell the truth, I'm more comfortable now that the amateurs are back in charge [of the White House].

I think it's true that Mike Pence, having been a politician for much longer than President Trump, certainly has a measured way of answering questions.

There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength.

I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.

I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and I've survived this town for four years.

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

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

My ignorance of politics couldn't be matched by anybody in politics.

TR was a very practical politician, and it was partly from watching him sympathetically that I lost some of my contempt for politicians …

I would love to believe that my political judgment is impeccable, but it's not.

I hear from people all the time and it infuriates me that 'President Obama's a brilliant politician.' No he absolutely is not.

Ronald Reagan knew audiences. It was a key element of his political genius. One of the things at which brilliant politicians are better than mediocre ones is smelling new public concerns over the horizon before they are picked up by polls - before the public even knows to call them 'issues' at all.

The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.

In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.

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.

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