Political Adjustment Quotes

Obviously in a campaign, people say lots of things that they find, when they get in the office, life's a little different.

I hate to lose the constituency that I've worked with, but I've got 170,000 people to meet in my new district.

Lets us all have an open conversation about what this might mean if [Donald] Trump gets his way or how we might be able to adjust that and make American people safer.

The problem is this. The spread of markets outpaces the ability of societies and their political systems to adjust to them, let alone to guide the course they take

No one is ready to be President. If you end up with the title, you adjust to the position.

I think that whenever you have got an incoming president of the other side it takes a while for people to reconcile themselves with that new reality.

Being in opposition takes some getting used to. As a former minister, you don't just lose your job and the enormous resources of the civil service, you also have to watch programmes that you were involved in being gradually dismantled.

The Democrats have got to open the door to young people. Welcome them in and understand that it will be messy, that many young people are not professional politicians. The Democratic Party is going to have to adjust itself to their reality, rather than force young people to be adjusted to the Democratic leadership's reality.

The boundaries of political units are never ... stationary—they must either expand or shrink.