Political Success Quotes

You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.

Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems.

I'm a very happy, content member of David Cameron's team. I fought very hard to get my friend elected as leader of the Conservative party, then elected as the prime minister of this country, and I'm very happy being part of that team that is bringing change to this country.

I became a prime minister within four-and-a-half years, the shortest kind of career ever in Israeli political history.

I have no limits to my ambition for the Liberal Democrats.

My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

I've decided to get into active politics on Narendra Modiji's request. I don't know how successful I will be, but I'll give it my best shot.

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.

I can't deny I'm a better ex-president than I was a president.

As we've always said, in politics the person with the biggest number wins.

The most successful politicians are the ones who embrace their best traits while turning their liabilities into loveable attributes. And yet, many a candidate tries to run as something they aren't simply because the strategy dictates it.

When I was elected at age 27 to the New York City Council I immediately became Minority Leader. I was the only Republican.

I come from a government in Indiana where we did get things done.

The Barack who was so successful in Illinois in a Republican-controlled legislative situation for most of his time and who was a very outspoken progressive voice, that's not the man who we ended up having as president.

I have no more campaigns to run... I know because I won both of them.

The man of public life has always at command a sure resource against this danger [losing political battles],—that is, retirement.

They want what every first term administration wants—a second term.

When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.

When we've been bold on the Bank of England, on PFI, on great constitutional change, on the New Deal, we've been most successful. So what we have to continue to try and do is to battle with ideas and find new ways of applying those values as the world changes.

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

I can say with some confidence that President Zardari's legacy will be written in golden words. I don't say this as his son, or patron-and-chief of the Pakistan People's Party - but as a student of history.

You know, in politics when you come in third, it's a win.