Dan Quayle Quotes

When you are President you have to get something done, and that often means compromise.

The art of politics is knowing what to do next.

In politics, as in business, leadership is crucial.

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

The art of government is the art of negotiating and compromise.

In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

Politics is about the persuasion required to move people to judgment.

Leadership is important in politics.

In politics there's never a magic wand.

Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.

Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.

I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.

Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.

Forget the consultants, the pundits and the pollsters; good policy is good politics.

In this game of politics, it's always kind of blame.

The dominant color of politics is gray; difficult choices and compromise are required at almost every step of the journey toward a major new program.

Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damned things take you.

Running a country is much more difficult than running a campaign.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable, the art of the next best.

Politics is the art of knowing and leading a multitude ... not where they want to go but where they should go.

Politics is who gets what, when, how.

Politics and strategy are one.