Scott Howell Quotes

Professional politicians often claim they are not professional politicians. Trump genuinely isn't one.

I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics.

Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.

I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

I think when you've been a career politician for 34 years you have to run on your record.

I've gone from being one of the youngest governors to now the longest consecutive serving governor in the country.

It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.

John Quincy Adams ranks with Jimmy Carter on the roster of ex-presidential redemption. Instead of completing a biography of his father, he let himself be elected to the House, where he spent nine terms in Whiggish opposition to the Democrats, supporting a national bank and a protective tariff and internal improvements.

Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don't want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee.

Everybody in politics writes a book and the books are dull—almost as dull as the people who wrote them.

Bobby Kennedy is pathetic as a senator.

Charlie Crist has gone through his entire political life with one stump speech - his grandfather polishing shoes.

I have dealt with politicians ever since I came into the government in 1971. I have seen many prime ministers, many finance ministers.

Politicians never fade away; they just keep carrying on, you know, their class.

When I think about Sen. Collins, I think she might have been different from the other people in Washington when she was first elected but I have to ask is that still the case.

I was quite young when my dad went into politics but, as it went on, I became self-conscious about it.

He's a nice guy who will never change the Senate. He is the Senate. Eighteen years in politics, and he's got two cousins who are senators, too. Mark Udall's dad even ran for president.

None from my family was in politics. I am a first-generation politician.

Hillary Clinton's been around for 30 years. Why do these stories need to be told? It isn't all of this widely known?

California's 74-year-old Senator Barbara Boxer announced she will not run for re-election in 2016. When I saw the headline '74-Year-Old Boxer,' I assumed they were making another 'Rocky' movie.

Our dad was just a congressman for 27 years, and if you live in Washington, D.C., everybody's dad works for the government. We grew up just like everyone else.

I chose not to go into politics and policy. Those policies are my husband's job.