Quotes About Politics

If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I'd not only run, I'd win.

A people fatigued by bad presidential judgment aren't inclined to reward him or his party.

Presidential coverage used to be a very serious endeavor.

Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before.

A great many of us have been concerned about the presidential nomination system... whether or not we have drifted into a system that simply doesn't work so well any more.

Hillary Clinton must have been as aware as anyone that by entering the presidential race she was kicking off a long-awaited social experiment.

I can't comment on what every single presidential candidate is saying or doing.

John Kennedy won the first televised presidential debate among those watching it, while Richard Nixon won among those listening on the radio.

I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.

I loved covering presidential politics - not so much because of the candidates but because of the people it allowed me to talk to.

In presidential campaigns, experience as a candidate is an invaluable asset.

I don't have any presidential aspirations. If the millennials want me to do it, I'd do it, though.

You can always find people, ordinary people, who will support your particular view, so it becomes a politics of personality, especially at the presidential level. People often go for somebody that they like or somebody that they can identify with.

On style points alone, Donald Trump makes GWB look magnificently presidential.

No one can change the definition of what behavior is presidential because that definition fundamentally depends on what our form of government requires, not on what one individual prefers.

Nigel Farage, the leader of the U.K. Independence Party, is a true populist; Senator Bernie Sanders, the former U.S. presidential candidate who campaigned for Hillary Clinton after losing his battle for the Democratic Party's nomination, is not.

The classic rules of American politics are dying, if not dead, if you look at the last two presidential elections. An African-American could never be president until one was; a TV reality star couldn't become president until one was.

Presidential scandals have traditionally and historically no effect on the market.

In presidential elections, I think people focus way too much on ideology.

I love presidential campaigns. It is a time when people are feeling what is going on in the heart of our country.

Rubio and Cruz bring with them only in America personal stories that rival the 'log cabin' narratives of presidential candidates the 19th Century. They are Hispanic-American children of immigrants.

The presidential race should not be a battle of personalities.

Midterm elections, by nature, just aren't about the party that's out of power. But presidential years are different.

Governorships and Senate seats are the most common stepping-stone offices for presidential campaigns, and U.S. House seats are the most common stepping-stone positions for statewide campaigns.