Political Prowess Quotes

Washington is built on power.

Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.

When you come down to the short strokes in Washington DC, you have to have power.

There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings, some better than others, who rise or fall on the challenges they meet.

Lyndon Johnson might have been the greatest vote counter ever in Congress, not because of his math skills but because of his unrivaled ability to read his fellow politicians and his utter ruthlessness in using what he knew.

Clinton was the most formidable politician I have ever encountered.

I hear from people all the time and it infuriates me that 'President Obama's a brilliant politician.' No he absolutely is not.

If 2016 taught us anything, it's that President Trump's political prowess should not be discounted or underestimated.

As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton.

I think the Clintons are brilliant. I've never met a person as intelligent as Bill, and I think Hillary is right up there with him. They're too smart for Washington.

Nixon, with his mellifluous baritone, was a great politician for radio but creepy on TV.

It is not true that Trump is nobody's fool. He is the GOP's.

Rove, of course, is an exceptionally good, exceptionally skillful campaign guy, and Bush himself is really gifted at the political end of politics. But he's always been, as he says, misunderestimated.

My view of Sarah Palin is she is the most dynamic figure maybe in politics, even more in some ways than President Obama, who is a little more scripted than she is. He is great with the teleprompter.