Political Experience Quotes

Maybe Hillary Clinton was right in 2008 when she called Barack Obama 'naive' on foreign policy.

Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president.

When I served as prime minister last time, I failed to prioritize my agenda. I was eager to complete everything at once, and ended my administration in failure. After resigning, for six years I traveled across the nation simply to listen.

I've never, in my whole 30 years in office, run a negative ad.

I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

I've been a candidate for office at least eight times. A couple times for mayor, state representative, city council.

With all their attack ads, the President is just throwing away money...and he's pretty experienced at that.

I've been through several of his campaigns, and I can tell you nobody can out-campaign Rick Perry.

I believe that the role of president of the United States is vastly different from the role of candidate and that the Donald Trump of the campaign will not succeed as president.

That worst evil of long dictatorships: the loss of all political experience.

Donald Trump has made outstanding picks for his Cabinet.

You will be put under the heel of a majority which, if greater than you in numbers, is most undoubtedly inferior to you in political knowledge and experience …. You the wealthy, the orderly, the industrious, the enterprising portion of Ireland are to supply money for the that part of Ireland which is less orderly, less industrious, less enterprising and less law-abiding …

When he ran a private company, one he owned, Trump could command all its constituent parts to do his bidding and make the rules himself. You'd think by his fourth year in the White House, he would have learned that the presidency doesn't work that way. But obviously he hasn't.

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

They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.

The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job.

Truth telling in politics is the mark of an inexperienced politician.

I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.

I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.

One of the advantages of getting elected governor when you're 58 instead of 38 is you have some mileage on you and part of that means some history and some relationships with people who have spent a fair amount of their career in the public and in the private sector.

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

I had run other people's campaigns. I had been doing political activities for a decade before I ever ran for office myself. That is so much the experience of women of my generation. We always feel as though we have to bring so much more to the table, and that never stops the guys.

I'd worked at the White House for two years, and I'd read a bunch of White House memoirs because everybody who works at the White House, even for five minutes, writes a memoir usually not less than 600 pages long - and never without the word 'power' in the title.