Political Tenacity Quotes

I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.

I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and I've survived this town for four years.

Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness.

In politics, one is never finished. Look at me!

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

We're novices. We have friends now who are part of the freshman class who in some cases have run for Congress two and three times before they won their seat.

Richard Nixon is very much a self-made man in the six years prior to his emergence as a national figure. Between the moment he's elected to Congress in 1946 and the moment he's inaugurated as Vice President in 1953, he conducts nothing less than a kind of prodigy of American political self-advancement.

The reason I'm a Nixonite is because of his indestructibility and resilience. He never quit.

Clinton was the most formidable politician I have ever encountered.

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

My father used to say that you haven't learnt anything about politics unless you've been out of power for at least 10 years. That's why I am certain I am here to stay.

Politics is not a world for the squeamish or fainthearted.

Politicians who have been around for a while tend to have thick skins.

[Summarizing his political career:] Just say I was sober and I meant to do every damn thing I did