Quotes About Decision-making

Politics is about listening and it's about leading.

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.

In politics there's never a magic wand.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.

What good would politics be, if it didn't give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.

You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him.

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.

If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?

No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?

President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.

The fundamental question of politics has always been whether there should be politics.