Political Growth Quotes

Grow up, Donald Trump. Grow up. Time to be an adult. You're president. You gotta do something. Show us what you have.

I’ve watched Dick a long time, and he just hasn’t grown. So I haven’t been able to believe he is presidential timber.

We on the Left are very good at criticizing people, but we need to build the base to pull people to the Left.

Governments grow as God declines, in both Europe and the United States

I think that liberals need to grow up.

Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man.

ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.

Obama seems steadfast in his resistance both to learning from his past errors and to managing his team so that future errors are prevented. It is hard to think of a recent president who has grown so little in office.

Conservative principles place growth and opportunity at the forefront, and I look forward to the RNC continuing to promote those values in communities across the nation as we grow the party.

We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option.

Tolerance of dissent is the hallmark of a mature party, and it is well past time for the Republican Party to grow up.

Mandela's political evolution was gradual.

I agree that the two-party system stomps on any kind of competition. A great first step is to open the presidential debates to all qualified candidates, including the Libertarians. If that happens, the Libertarian party will experience unprecedented growth.

Whether you voted for me or not, going through the Democratic process had made me a better candidate. I am a smarter, better candidate.

When I first started talking about running for office, a lot of people said to me, 'Don't let the consultants change you,' and I'd always assured them that I wouldn't allow it to happen. But like it or not, I had to change. Not because of a consultant, but because I started to understand the cost of a stupid mistake.

Politics hasn't changed, but I've changed.

The book shows Clinton in the presidency as a profile in growth.

Let's keep in mind that Donald Trump didn't win because of himself. He won in spite of himself. A quarter of his voters voted for Donald Trump believing he wasn't presidential and he didn't have the temperament, but they had hope that he would grow into the office and become more presidential. That doesn't seem to have happened, and I don't think it will happen for a 71-year-old man.

I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.

In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.

I'm not a really super-political type of person, and that might change as I get older.

The GOP needs to figure out a way to become more appealing to new constituencies.

If Rand Paul is going to go anywhere, he is going to have to expand it beyond merely this argument about where we put troops and don't put troops and make it both a generational argument and a change argument. And he's got a chance to do that.