Political Instinct Quotes

Political parties are like poets, born, not made.

If you're in politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

The public is moved by mood more than logic, by instinct more than reason, and that is something that every politician must make use of or guard against

[There is] a type of which he [Theodore Roosevelt] is perhaps the master specimen—the politician who could not help being one if he tried…. when Mr. Roosevelt takes a step which the mass of his fellow citizens regard as carefully considered for its political effect, the chances are at least even that he is merely obeying a natural impulse, which may make for either strength or weakness.

I think I'm probably just an old-fashioned Tory. I don't wake up each morning trying to figure out what kind of Conservative I am; for me it's quite instinctive.

Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural.

The instinct of the Labour Party is if there's a problem, change the leader, then sit back, fold your arms and wait to be disappointed because they're sure it's not going to deliver.

If I say I am not a politician, it is because I did not go to school to do political science. But at the end of the day, I think we are all born politicians. It's practical. All you gotta do is practice.

The icons of the past relied on political instinct. Now Presidents can use scientific polls and focus groups.

A politician’s instinct is for self-survival.

Washington is a mirror reflecting our instinct.

Hillary Clinton has no instinct.

I thought Donald Trump once again just missed a whole bunch of opportunities to bury Hillary Clinton, and he missed them because he's not a politician, and he's not instinctively oriented toward the ideological explanations that undergird Hillary's policies.

I have got instincts that, I think, are very much in tune with people's very keen sense to see something different. I did not dream of being in politics since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I was not involved in student politics, or not in that partisan way.