Anthony Albanese Quotes

President Obama makes fantastic stump speeches, but putting together an actual agenda is more complicated.

In order to have your short term policies accepted, you have to have your long term policies understood.

A great politician has to bother himself less with means than with goals.

What Republicans have to get away from is just worrying about the next election and start thinking about what is good for the country down the road.

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

Neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily taken for the future.

Every political persuasion has something they want to get off the screen.

You make a good politician, but you've got to develop a philosophy.

Half of my job is to help build public support for the President’s agenda.

There is something wrong with the way in which we make our decisions. The Government listen too much to the pollsters and the party managers. The trouble is that they are not even very good at politics, and they are entering too much into policy decisions. As a result, there is too much short-termism, too much reacting to events, and not enough shaping of events. We give the impression of being in office but not in power. Far too many important decisions are made for 36 hours' publicity.

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values.

Barak Obama is a chess player in a town full of checkers players.

When everyone is running the machine, and it's all working, there's a tendency to look at the short term and focus on incremental opportunities and not look ahead to the really big opportunities.

Based on history, many presidents come into office with lots of plans, and an agenda and things they want to start and an order in which they want to do those things.

Democrats are very good at governing. When it comes to messaging, I'm not too sure about.

One of the hardest things in politics is to convince people to do things now that will have a good effect 20 or 30 years from now because politicians tend to have a short-term view. They are more attentive to things that people care about today.

I do politics in order to do policy.

I don't think we do a great job in America any more of distinguishing between campaigns and governance. We live in an environment that's all campaign all of the time and it's helpful, now that we've moved beyond a campaign and an election to get into a governance posture.

Let us not confuse objectives with methods. Too many so-called leaders of the nation fail to see the forest because of the trees. Too many of them fail to recognize the vital necessity of planning for definite objectives. True leadership calls for the setting forth of the objectives and the rallying of public opinion in support of these objectives.

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

The key to leadership is having a vision, and being strong enough to say no and not try to please everybody. Thats a recipe for failure. Leadership is practiced through attitude and actions, rather than words and memos.

So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government, the remorseless agenda of this part of the media or that.

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions.

The leader is the organization's top strategist... systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.