Political Learning Quotes

I'm an Obama supporter, no question. But it doesn't mean there's nothing to learn from the other side.

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

In politics you learn from the mistakes you made and the mistakes that you see other people make.

What politics I ever learned, I learned in the streets, because it was part of the environment.

Trump could teach Republicans in Washington a lot if only they stopped posturing long enough to watch carefully.

So, I've learned - as a young Democrat, I've learned to think cautiously before offering advice to Nancy Pelosi.

I guess you'd say, including the - what I just spoke about, the learning that liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be.

He "wasn't used to being criticized, and he never did get it through his head that's what politics is all about. He was used to getting his ass kissed."

We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it.

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 didn't know how to pass a major piece of legislation; I didn't know how to get colleagues to support my views. It took a lot of asking for advice and learning. One of the lessons is that you have to be able to tell people why you care, and you're only going to be able to do that if you talk to someone whom an issue is affecting.

I, personally, think Trump improved pretty dramatically and certainly changed pretty dramatically over the last hundred days. He's less of the populist. He's more of the corporatist. He's less incompetent. He's trying to at least turn toward people who can put a decision-making process. And he's trying to adjust to the job. And so whatever one thinks of him, he is certainly a learning creature.

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

Rick Perry was philosophical about (his election losses). He said, 'Last week was Iowa. Yesterday was New Hampshire. ' He said at least it's giving him a chance to learn the names of all the states.

If you want to be constructive in politics, the less you look back, the better. If you do look back, then it can only be to learn for yourself through the events that have taken place.