Political Timing Quotes

Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.

Being right too early is one of the most devastating things in politics

Before some things can be politically expedient, they must first become popular.

Saddam Hussein is a threat, but the threat is not so great that we must be stampeded to provide such authority to this president just weeks before an election.

The Goldstone Committee was formed in April of 2009, after I was not prime minister. So it was a new political situation.

If I made a mistake in terms of running for president, the mistake was not in refusing to run in '91.

If you announce your candidacy too early there will be nothing new later. You will be the stale piece of bread on the shelf.

There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.

You can't be too right too soon and win elections.

An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.

The door to the White House hinges on timing.

We got the first WikiLeaks publication of documents hacked and stolen by Russian government sources from the DNC, from the Democratic Party, and they started publishing those stolen documents from the DNC right before the Democrats started their convention.Good political timing if you're trying to help [Donald] Trump and hurt the Democrats.

Is it really in our countrys best interest to signal to the enemy that they probably only have to wait us out a little longer because congressional determination to defeat them is crumbling? Doesnt such a resolution further diminish our chances for success at the very time our soldiers are preparing to go into battle? And finally, regardless of our politics is this the time to announce to the world that our president is 'on his own'?

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

Politics at bottom is not all that complicated. It's all about timing.

It's just a matter of time before we go into Iraq and get Saddam Hussein. I think just before Bush falls below 50 percent, that's when we'll be going.

It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.

In politics things change, in politics timing is important, and in politics, how I move, I don't tell you.

Politicians, after all, are not over a year behind public opinion.

Lincoln was very wise about the Mexican War. He waited until the war was over until he criticized it.

I think conventional wisdom is that time is not on our side. But there are a number of members of Congress who have primaries and when those primaries are done, they may be more inclined to address the issue of comprehensive immigration reform.

For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.

You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.