Political Dynasty Quotes

John Adams and John Quincy Adams had six sons. Two of these were great statesman and four were drunks. For the Adams family it was the White House or the Ale House …. Family pressure is part of what drives people to drink.

When George W. Bush was president, his daddy was raising money for the Bush library. I thought that was fine. When Bob Dole was Majority Leader, Elizabeth Dole was the president of American Red Cross. I didn't say anything.

My father was the prime minister and we had Tamil Nadu's support.

They're saying Arnold will get 95% of the vote. At least according to his brother, Jeb Schwarzenegger.

Meanwhile, the Bush dynasty comes to an official end.

My father was a politician. My grandfather was a politician too, maybe it's an innate idea of representing people that we have in our family. I won't go into politics. I think I can provide the voice for the voiceless through law.

Jeb Bush, I appreciate you. You a leader. You a Bush.

I cannot let Justin Trudeau do to my children what his father did to my generation.

Make no mistake: you're going to see a lot of Bushes.

Mitt Romney comes from a family of builders.

I am not from a political family. I never had the opportunity to meet the world leaders earlier.

Politics is a pure meritocracy. That's why Gordon Brown's cabinet had two brothers and a married couple in it. They just happened to be the best people around.

Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, I suppose, Jimmy Carter. They balance their tickets with senior statesmen - Lyndon Johnson, Joe Biden, Walter Mondale. (Al Gore was young but played ancient).

Those who had staked most of their personal hopes on RFK are extremely frustrated - & the prospect of anyone ‘in the family’ who didn’t impale him – or herself – on a picket fence without regard to the consequences – suddenly being in a position to pick up all the marbles – that prospect is galling! The same palace guard (now with palace)(or a pretender) find it hard to accept the prospect of a prodigal in-law (let alone son) sitting down their feast.

George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.

Can a Congress worker ever think of becoming a Prime Minister? No. Because that seat is reserved by birth in that party.

It's funny how the history of Jeb Bush is going to be rewritten.

In publishing 'JFK: Reckless Youth' almost twenty years ago, I had gotten into trouble myself with the Kennedys. Not because of my portrait of JFK - which was highly laudatory - but because I had described his parents, Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, in less-than-flattering terms.

Theodore Roosevelt had drawn public attention to his attractive family in order to create a bond with ordinary Americans. Eleanor Roosevelt had successfully broached the idea that a First Lady could be nearly as much a public figure as her husband.

Jeb Bush announced today on the Internet that he may run for president. The next presidential election could be Bush vs. Clinton. It will be like 1992 all over again except I won't be in rehab.

I know people voted for me only in my father's name.

[Addressing Nelson Rockefeller:] You thought that, because you were a Rockefeller, you were owed the presidency. You weren't. It's one of the beauties of America.

I wanted to prove that a son of a politician can be a successful businessman.

I think the country has had enough Bushes.

Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments.