Effective Politics Quotes

Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy.

Good economics is good politics.

Over time, the best politics are policies that actually work …. Others in the White House are looking for short term political victories. The political hacks are just doing their jobs.

I don't think its particularly smart [in a campaign] to spend your time responding to the other candidate.

It's a question of evidence-based politics. If you know that something does not work, you should not keep doing it.

What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.

There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong.

I think that Donald Trump is very concerned about finding the right way to be effective in a responsible way. And he wants to be effective.

Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.

Doom scenarios, even though they might be true, are not politically or psychologically effective. The first step . . . is to make us love the world rather than to make us fear for the end of the world.

They are lovely people. All the political movements I’ve been associated with have consisted of lovely people. But what a successful political movement needs is not lovely people. Give me a mean son-of-a-bitch like Lew Atwater or Karl Rove. The Drug Reform people a lovely, stoned hippies.

Good politicians listen to the people.

I don't believe in mud slinging. I don't think it does any good.

I think I had struck on a combination of imagery and politics that worked.

It's always easy to look at either the politics of division or fear as effective tools in politics, but ultimately, even though they can be effective tools to help you get elected, they hinder your ability to actually get the job of building a better future for this country, for this community, done.

Questions about political theatre always overlook America's most powerful and effective political theatre, which is always thriving: the American musical. The politics is conservative but, to my mind, effective and insidious.

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. He will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time. An architect of ability should be able to tell a client what he wants. Most of the time a client never knows what he wants.

The effective strategies in politics are ones that are so clear and obvious that people can grasp it.