Political Office Quotes
William Gibbs McAdoo was a contender for the presidential nomination. As an attorney he was urged not to represent any rich or large corporate clients lest his image be tarnished. He asked if he had to remain poor all his life:
Note that his beginning of the quote mimics General Sherman’s famous quotation about the Presidency.
Stimson had been a key member of the Theodore Roosevelt national administration, and Roosevelt, before he became Vice President and then President had been a very popular governor of NY. Stimson, although a brilliant administrator, and statesman was a bit stuffy and aloof and was a terrible campaigner. He thought it immodest to refer to himself in public or to talk about his record. See {589269}. So the Republicans tried to tie him to Roosevelt who was still very popular. See {589268}. It was not enough. Stimson lost.
When Lyndon Johnson was elected Vice President he, as the former Senate Majority Leader, wanted to lead the Democratic Senate Caucus. Gore objected because he thought that violated the separation of powers between the Executive and the Legislative branches, and he wanted the Senate to be independent from the administration. Despite Gore’s objection, Johnson was elected.
In contrast to so many of the world’s leaders of newly independent countries who would rarely relinquish power, O’Higgins, Bolivar and other South Amiercan early liberators were idealists who were uncomfortable with power and were disappointed at the factions and warlords and were anxious to leave office.
When Disraeli first entered politics and tried to run for Parliament the notion that he would ever become Prime Minister was very unrealistic to everyone except Disraeli. In addition to no political experience at the time, he came from a Jewish background at a time when anti-Semitism was very common and acceptable to England. Even if he were not inexperienced and Jewish, he was not part of the British aristocracy and was not socially connected. He also had no large business and industrial connections and no important family connections. However, he was a marvelous writer and speaker, a very fast learner, and turned out to be a political natural. Most historians rate him as one of the two or three greatest British Prime Ministers.
This quotation was used without a publication citation by many Blogs throughout the Internet which were opposed to President George W. Bush. Many people, especially Bush supporters, believed this to be a phantom quotation. However, it was real, from 1920. It was agin circulated when Dolad Trump was elected and the fit with Trump was even better.
