Quotes About Resilience

When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics.

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.

Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.

There's only one thing to do with politics, and that is to survive it.

Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.

I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.

I'm glad I'm blind and can't see it.

Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint-of-heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up.

Never quit politicking and never underestimate your opponent.

Nations are born out of travail and suffering

Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.

One thing I've noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.

In politics, one is never finished. Look at me!

I never leave a game before the last pitch, because in baseball, as in life and especially politics, you never know what will happen.

You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.

When I campaigned, I'd let them throw a punch, but by gosh, I'd throw two back. I always said, the first rule in politics is never defend, always attack. I still believe that.

He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.

During times like these, the wise are influential.

The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you...and then, the worse things get.

My hat's in the ring. The fight is one and I'm stripped to the buff.

My mind is like the Titanic, to many brain cells for the life boats.

Dealing with pain for surviving on this thirsty concrete

I've accepted that I was a failure in politics. I was not qualified for the job.