Political Evaluation Quotes

The United States should not, in principle, object to the implementation of Islamic law or involvement of Islamic activists in government. Islamically oriented political actors and groups should be evaluated by the same criteria that are applied to any other potential leaders or opposition party.

Even if I disagree with Obama on many, many things, he is certainly qualified to be president. He is certainly competent to be president.

In fundamental ways, the 2016 Democratic primary has been a litigation of the Obama years, and of whether the president's 2008 campaign vow of 'change we can believe in' succeeded or failed.

Senators should not play politics by threatening filibusters and evaluating Judge Gorsuch based on what his policy preferences are or how he might come down on a specific case that may come before the Court.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Now that President Trump is a reality, I happily have been giving him a chance to see how he does.

Everyone knows that the Workers' Party governments did much more good than bad for the country.

Did it ever strike you, Jennifer [Palmieri], that maybe [Hillary Clinton] is a lousy candidate?

If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate?

If you look back at past administrations, they're probably a little bit behind where former President George W. Bush was.

So let's see what they [Republicans] are going to do. If they're going to put together great programs, and everybody understands that they're good.

Putin is a better leader than Obama, because Obama's not a leader, so he's certainly doing a better job than Obama is, and that's all.

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.

Most presidents have not considered 100 days a significant milepost.

One thing Barack Obama is: He's a good campaigner. He's a terrible president.

To be fair, my analysis failed to spell out Obama's first-term accomplishments, although I did acknowledge his 'enormous skills' and tried to focus readers on the distinction between good and great presidencies.

I don't believe UPA government did nothing; they did whatever they could and they deserve appreciation for whatever good they did.

Statesmen are judged by history beyond contemporary debates.

The President scores much better than Bill Clinton.

I am seeing that Gandhi is looking through these specs that whether we have made India clean or not, what we have done and what we have done.

I find it hard to imagine that future historians will see the Iraq War as a big plus in Bush's ledger, but we have to admit that we simply don't know for sure.