Albert Hopman Quotes

Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.

Politics is about explanations.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Politics is activity in relation to power.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.

Politics is about accountability, it is about leadership, it is about courage.

He can't spend all his time running his mouth; he's got to run the country.

The distinction between a statesman and a politician is that the former imposes his will and his ideas on his environment while the latter adopts himself to it.

There are two kinds of people. The smart people ... who sit around the table and kind of examine life. And then there are the other people—who run for public office, and some of the idiots like myself who are just in there fighting.

I cannot run the political machine. I have enough on my hands without that. It is the people's business.

I loved being governor. It’s like running your own little country.

Politics determine who has the power, not who has the truth.

Governing has always been hard.

Leadership is important in politics.

One day, when I have advertising out of my system, I want to be Prime Minister of Australia.

Politics, I love. It's a noble profession.

I've always thought Anne-Marie Slaughter would make a fantastic United States Senator or something. She's a real intellectual, but she's got enormous communicative skills and she's got government experience. The thing that drives me slightly crazy is the way we think about intellectuals as wooly, hopeless, arrogant, self-deceived, incapable.

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

Politicians can't manage. All they can do is talk.

In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

I love politics.

The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.

Voters will decide how they want to be governed.

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.