Government Affairs Quotes

People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.' ... If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics.

You have to be an optimist to be in politics.

The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

I spent most of my career in hi tech, not in politics.

I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.

You can't be a public affairs specialist if you're actually working on the public's affairs.

I was given a White House - well, you will have to ask the White House that. But I asked to attend the White House briefing because I was, you know, because I wanted to report on the activities there.

I'm an engineer, not a politician.

You're never really out of politics.

I'm an entrepreneur. I'm not a politician.

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

I got a job with a law firm in Portland after a couple of years with Senator Muskie. But by then, my interest in politics had been sparked, through meeting Senator Muskie, through seeing what he did.

I like to be a strategic policy guy.

Kellyanne is a tireless and tenacious advocate of the president-elect's agenda and has amazing insights on how to effectively communicate the administration's message as part of the senior team in the West Wing.

Secretary of state is far superior to vice president, because it's involved in continuously solving problems and making policy and not being on standby.

I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. And I just focused almost exclusively on my initiatives for national crime legislation, foreign policy issues.

From breaking down the latest headlines on 'FOX News @ Night' to explaining the complexities of the law, I have had the opportunity to report from the front lines of the major stories emanating out of Washington.

I'm a musician, and I'm not interested in being in the Houses of Parliament.

I am a pretty good lawyer, and I decided to close the office and to enter politics.

There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!

If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.

My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.

Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise as the relationship to the government. Managers have responsibility for this relationship as part of their responsibility to the enterprise itself. It is an area of social impact of the business. To a large extent the relationship to government results from what businesses do or fail to do.

My wife, well she has extensive experience, because before becoming the first lady, she was the wife of the CEO of a large conglomerate. So I have very high hopes that she will carry out her job successfully as first lady of the Republic of Korea.