Political Record Quotes

A politician and a government should be judged by one way only: on the record of what you do or did, not on what you say.

I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.

I became a prime minister within four-and-a-half years, the shortest kind of career ever in Israeli political history.

[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record.

John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.

There's people out there with nuclear bombs and yet we've got all these politicians trying to make a political platform based on a record. Isn't it ridiculous?

Obama's record on climate issues is not all bad.

There were 17 people in the race. I got more votes than anybody in the history of Republican politics. By millions.

If I decide to run for office again, it will be based on what I believe, and it will be based on my record. And that record was one of solving problems completely from a conservative prospective.

Despite my work, I know some in politics will never support me. I see them distort my record.

As a woman, I don't trust Boris Johnson with my rights and that's largely because of the things that he has said and done in his political life.

Despite the fact that David Petraeus is now very highly regarded in foreign policy circles because of his record in both Republican and Democratic circles. It's all pretty extraordinary.

The Republican party is not perfect, but if you put this party's record of achievements on one side of a balance scale and the Democrat's record on the other, the Republican side would slam the table.

We have a record for Nawaz Sharif but not the others. And judging by the record, it's pretty hard to be optimistic. His [Sharif's] previous governments were very corrupt and regressive in the policies pursued.

I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.

Even after four years in office, George W. Bush's record on women doesn't leap out at you. It's composed almost entirely of little things, small enough to fly well under the media's radar screen, so few of us have any sense of their cumulative impact.

I think when you've been in office for a long time, you have a record, and that record is fair game.

What is it we are hating? It goes beyond politics. I suppose that my fascination with [Margaret Thatcher] is not just with her political record but with her as a phenomenon.

Tim Kaine can't point to a single accomplishment in the United States Senate for Virginia or Virginians.

Well we didn't look at it like that. We looked at it: "Why Carolyn Maloney?" Of course, we didn't know about Caroline Kennedy, but we do know and have - this is not against somebody, this is for somebody who we know has had a proven record. It's 16 years in the House, 10 years on the City Council of New York City, that she has shown her determination to pass legislation. She is - she knows how a legislature works.

McCarthy had ten years in the House of Representatives, only two terms as a senator. What did he pass? Are there any bills or any piece of legislation that he's identified with? Not at all.

Like a lot of people, I'm very, very concerned about Senator Clinton's record. I'm very, very concerned about where her positions were in the 1990s, when we had some of the most disgusting legislation in terms of our criminal justice, really, in this country's history.

He spent more time on the road to Damascus than a Syrian camel driver. And we thought nobody could fill John Kerry's flip-flops! ... [Romney's record was] anything but conservative until he changed all the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for President.

If I'm going to compare myself to a candidate, it's Rick Scott. It's not Donald Trump.

I have a very strong record on the Environment in the United States Senate.