Political Genius Quotes

Ronald Reagan knew audiences. It was a key element of his political genius. One of the things at which brilliant politicians are better than mediocre ones is smelling new public concerns over the horizon before they are picked up by polls - before the public even knows to call them 'issues' at all.

The most brilliant statesman who ever lived, possessing the loftiest and keenest intellect of his time.

George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, became the first incumbent president to increase his majority in both the Senate and the House and to increase his own vote (by over 3.5 million) since Franklin D. Roosevelt, political genius of the 20th century, in 1936.

The reality is Donald Trump's a genius.

A political genius is a man ... who has accidentally been on the winning side in the last campaign and is about to be on the losing side.

The fact that Hitler was a political genius unmasks the nature of politics in general as no other fact can.

To create a housing shortage in a huge country, heavily wooded, with a small population—ah, that's proof of pure political genius.

The American political system was created by a bunch of geniuses so that it could be run by a bunch of idiots.

I think the American system is incredibly well developed. I think the founding fathers were geniuses.

Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.

From every ancient source, we have testimony to Cleopatra's irresistible charm, as Plutarch has it, to her ability to speak many languages including, as he puts it, the language of flattery and essentially, to be able to turn people to her will - really a great political genius, in that respect.

I'd rather have a genius like Donald Trump running America than someone like Hillary Clinton.

Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.

Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full answer.