Dennis Kucinich Quotes

I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

... knew more about world politics than all the cabinet ministers in office.

Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.

I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.

I know I'd be an absolutely horrendous politician.

I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

And I remember looking at Gray Davis and, you know, Gray is the consummate political operative.

You don’t become a statesman unless you are first a good politician.

I believe that [Bill] Clinton is the best tactical politician, certainly in my lifetime.

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

It is in vain to say that enlightened statesmen will always be able to adjust their interests. Enlightened men will not always be at the helm.

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

People who champion Trump say they don't want politics-as-usual. But 'politic' is also an adjective. It means 'tactful and diplomatic.' It's necessary for an elected official to be politic.

I have my opinions but to go into politics you have to be very clever, which I'm not!

My approach to politics is very serious. It must be handled by great people with extraordinary skills and human qualities. I feel I don't have qualities of that sort.

It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.

We used to actually kill each other before we discovered rhetoric in words. If you look at other countries, there are people attacking each other in parliament and stuff.

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.

Marriage is no substitute for political experience.

We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're quite clever. I've seen them pick people apart.

We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other.