Political Capability Quotes

A politician that is poor is a poor politician.

I know General Grant better than any other person in the country can know him. It was my duty to study him, and I did so day and night, when I saw him and when I did not see him, and now I tell you what I know, he cannot govern this country.

Politics was good a hundred years ago. Today, politicians have no ability to solve any problems because they are not students of behavior. They are not students of agriculture, oceanography - they know nothing about the factors that operate the world.

Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone - they just don't do it.

No one thinks she [Carolyn Maloney] can pass the Paid Family and Medical Leave Act; she passed it through the House. I mean, it's just - she's there. She knows the issues and she makes sure they get done.

Tina Fey could run this country before Sarah Palin could!

Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?

John Adams has neither judgment, firmness of mind, nor respectively of deportment to fill the chair of such an assembly.

I doubt very much if a man whose main literary interests were in works by Mr. Zane Grey, admirable as they may be, is particularly equipped to be the chief executive of this country, particularly where Indian Affairs are concerned.

Clinton is a very capable, conscientious person. I think she cares very deeply about policy. She knows a lot about how the government works, and I think those things are very important. You don't really appreciate those things until you get a guy like George W. Bush in the White House, and then you realize that when you don't have someone who knows or cares about government policy, a lot of bad stuff can happen.

Hillary Clinton doesn't have the energy to do anything.

The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.

I think Gary Johnson would be capable of being a good chief executive and yes a commander in chief - Aleppo to the contrary, notwithstanding.

The waiters in France could all be senators in the US.

The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.

Do you think it would be possible for women to make a worse mess of politics than the men have?