Political Jobs Quotes

Over time, the best politics are policies that actually work …. Others in the White House are looking for short term political victories. The political hacks are just doing their jobs.

Because of the Constitution, there are no qualifications for our jobs.

Regardless of how principled and ideological a political party may be, an essential point of party politics is to find jobs for the faithful of the winning party. If jobs cannot be found, the party system withers and dies, leaving only a self-perpetuating bureaucratic oligarchy behind. A system of minimal government can provide jobs for the winning party by throwing out the jobholders of the losing faction. But if civil service law freezes jobholders in place, the function of providing jobs for the winners can only occur by expanding the number of jobs: that is, at the expense of the taxpayers and of the productive, private sector. The "spoils system" allows all the costs to be imposed upon the losing party, and not at all on the body of the taxpayers. Surely a just and admirable system: who better to bear the costs of political defeat than the losing party?

Everybody in Washington wants one of these jobs studies this book. It's called the Plum Book because the people in Washington turn the pages looking for the plum that they want, the job that they want.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

These Republican governors who say that government can’t create jobs---well government certainly created their jobs..

Can you let me know what positions you have at your disposal with which to reward deserving Democrats?

The pundit world, having spent years in awe of Karl Rove, will never understand how bad he is at his White House job.