Famous quotes by Politicians

"Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership"

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

"Don't automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn't considered key aspects of the issue"

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

"When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later"

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

"Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs"

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

"Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer"

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

"Preserve the President's options. He may need them"

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

"If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't \"sail\" anyway. Send it back for further thought"

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

"First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win"

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

"Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up"

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

"Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals"

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

"There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"Politics, I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"It is like writing history with lightning, and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"The history of liberty is a history of resistance"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

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