I am not a professional politician.
Poor Rahul Gandhi doesn't know the ABCD of Karnataka politics.
Talent is really important in politics, but experience is also really important.
Tony Blair is one of the most significant world leaders of the modern era. He has a remarkable story to tell. His tenure as prime minister was marked by close relationships with Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush, and he enjoys a profile in this country that is rare among foreign leaders.
Lincoln, like Seward, had developed a cadre of lifelong friends who were willing to do anything in their power to ensure his nomination. But unlike Seward, he had not made enemies or aroused envy along the way.
I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
Politicians never fade away; they just keep carrying on, you know, their class.
I'm not deeply involved in politics, but about 25% of the people I interact with in politics went to law school.
I could really see myself in politics. Who knows?
A lot of people - a lot - have urged me to seek political office. All kinds of different jobs. Everybody has got a different idea for me, except all roads lead through my wife.
I had dreams of high political office.
I have no connections with any political event.
I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.
You can make a successful run for political office without an especially thick resume, any exceptional talent for expressing yourself, a noteworthy education or for that matter a basic grasp of science.
Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.
I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them.
Trump is very plugged in. He's very connected.
I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world.
I never had a political power base.
Our life did not seem unusual to me at all. Anything that happened that was special, like visits from dignitaries, was always explained as part of Dad's work.
People who know Paul Ryan say, 'He will be president one day.'
Paul Ryan hasn't lacked for a job since he left college as the golden child of Wisconsin Republican politics, riding his family connections into a job with then-Senator Bob Kasten.
Governor Granholm had all the right values but didn't have the right background.
In politics there are very few self-made men—most are machine-made.
