Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.
The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
You wonder sometimes how our government puts on its pants in the morning.
The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.
Political experience is political inefficacy.
The American psyche has not recovered, and likely will not ever fully recover, from the profound and relentless incompetence of George W. Bush's disastrous, multitrillion-dollar war.
We have a lot of really boring, silly, stupid politics. We need people to point that out.
Where I'm an outsider is, I'm not a career politician.
I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.
They couldn't, in the National Party, run a bath and if either the deputy leader or the leader tried to, Sir Robert would run away with the plug.
I just don't think our best are in politics. I think these guys are inept.
Pigs are smarter than dogs, and both are smarter than Congress.
We’ve had members of the Senate who have been there 30 years and haven’t gotten good at it yet.
