Political Achievement Quotes

I became a prime minister within four-and-a-half years, the shortest kind of career ever in Israeli political history.

I understand the significance of being one of 18 senators in Oklahoma history.

American secretaries of state have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adams's diplomatic successes - bigger than anything presidential or legislative that he achieved - still surprise a student of his personality.

You are the only man in history to every use the Presidency as a stepping stone to greatness.

The European Union ranks among the most extraordinary political achievement of modern times. It has abolished tariffs, established a common currency, and spread peace and prosperity to democracies across Europe.

I want to offer particular congratulations to Andrea Leadsom on her stunning achievement. She is now well placed to win and replace the absurd gloom in some quarters with a positive, confident and optimistic approach, not just to Europe, but to government all round.

No doubt it was better to have become president than not.

I never thought that I could reach such a high political position. But I have always been ready to serve my country.

Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment.

In 1988, my mother led a nationwide election campaign, wrote a bestselling book, had her first child, and became the youngest and first female prime minister of the Muslim world. All in one year! For her detractors, this wasn't good enough. She was unacceptable because she was a woman.

I am proud of my part in the creation of this new state. Our Government was the first to recognize the State of Israel.

I continue to believe when I said in Hanover, that the E.U. remains one of the world's great political and economic achievements, and that those achievements should not be taken for granted.

Let me first of all congratulate both of the candidates who have made it through - both Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom are formidable politicians and they have fought great campaigns and they deserve to be in the final two.

My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life?

Our legislative victory - an end to earmarks.

Only in America could a refugee girl from Central Europe become secretary of state.

No one in the modern history of this country, no president, has done more to move toward a balanced budget than has President Bill Clinton.

Election victories are a harvest. You plant the seed. For months or years, you water and tend them. In the election season, you reap the harvest.

For the first time ever, a black Republican woman has been elected to Congress. President Obama told her, 'You are all set. This country never turns against a black anything.'

The victory of Mr. Kostunica will be a reality.

To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery.

Unlike the Obama Cabinet, the Trump Cabinet is not comprised of do-nothing bureaucrats, who worked their way up the twisted, scheme-ridden Washington ladder; rather, they are doers, achievers, and leaders, who have attained the heights of greatness in their particular fields.

The late Roy Jenkins was both a mentor and a personal friend. He was a man of both phenomenal intellect and political achievement in equal measure.

I think I'm getting very high marks on foreign policy. I noticed that over the last couple of days.

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.