Arch A. Moore Jr. Quotes

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

Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.

Marriage is no substitute for political experience.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

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.

There is no school that teaches you how to run a state. You make mistakes, but you learn on the job.

When you get into an airplane, you expect a pilot who knows how to fly. Running a Government is also an expertise.

Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?

If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.

I think JR would make a better President than the one we have now.

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.

I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.

I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things.

Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues.

Obama and his associates are fantastic campaigners but have little ability or skill to govern.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

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

I think experience is a terribly overrated idea when it comes to thinking about who should become president.

First and foremost, when I think of him - I'm prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years - when I think of him, I think of him first and foremost as an idea politician.

I think that Governor Romney needs to talk about the fact that what he tried to do in the state of Massachusetts was him seeing what could be best for his state, but maybe it didn't work out as well.

Politicians are wither very good at running for office or they are good at running government. Seldom are the two found together.

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