Political Cycle Quotes

For the White House, victories beget victories and loses beget losses.

It is fascinating to watch politicians come up with 'solutions' to problems that are a direct result of their previous solutions. In many cases, the most efficient thing to do would be to repeal their previous solution and stop being so gung-ho for creating new solutions in the future. But, politically, that is the last thing they will do.

We will spend and spend, and tax and tax, and elect and elect.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.

Forty-eight hours is a long time in politics

A week is a long time in politics. A month is an eternity.

Four years is a long time in politics.

Politics is a like physics. Whatever goes up has to come down a little bit.

Republicans run the machine when it's their turn, and then hand the wheel over to Democrats when the public has had enough.

Nothing in American politics is forever.

You've got just one year when Congress treats you right. Then they start worrying about themselves.

Consumers, unlike voters, expect an immediate response to their concerns; and companies, unlike governments, do not have the luxury of a mid-term lull.

There is a substantial correlation between an election year and how the market finishes.

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

I have a four-year term; presidents have a two-year term, because the midterm elections are so important.

Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the face of freedom hardens, and by and by it is the old face of tyranny. Then another cycle, and another. But under the play of all these opposites there is something fundamental and permanent - the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free.

[Referring to the Democrats:] They can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.

Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.

Three weeks is a lifetime in presidential politics. The conventional wisdom changes so suddenly.

I've noticed that in the U.S., when the president hits the three-year mark in office, he goes into re-election campaigning.

With money we will get partisans, with partisans votes, and with votes money, is the maxim of our political pilferers.

The scale of time for a politician runs between one primary and the next, and in Israel, this means two to three years because elections almost never take place once every four years as stipulated by law. The timetable for a system of research is completely different.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

A week is a long time in politics.