“Embracing failure is the most important trait I've developed in my career. I have tried to learn from my failures, and I believe it has made me stronger, more confident and more resilient.” TryingBelieveMadeImportantI BelieveCareersLearningFailureConfidencePoliticianSelf ImprovementStrongerResilienceLawyerDevelopingBelieve In YourselfTraitsStay StrongResilientFailure Is Not An OptionGetting StrongerStronger Than You ThinkStronger Than Before Author:Reshma Saujani
“I'm not sure I want to sound like a candidate. I just want to sound like an American who's trying to make this country a heck of a lot stronger. Not a politician typical, but somebody that's going to go and do the job, not pay attention to all the special interest groups, change the status quo, shift power out of Washington and get America on the track again with strengthening our military as well.” WantTryingWellsCountryJobsAmericaSoundInterestChangePayAttentionGroupsSpecialMilitaryStrengthPoliticianStrongerTrackPay AttentionNot SureCandidatesTypicalStatus QuoSpecial InterestsInterest GroupsSpecial Interest Groups Author:John Kasich
“A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler.” MenMeanProudPoliticianLowsCapacityToolsStrongerSurroundings Book:Life of Thomas Hart Benton Source: Life of Thomas Hart Benton
“Never has the divide between the iPhone world and the politics world been so clear: I saw a bunch of people very well-served by their computers and telephones (very often Apple products) but undeniably shortchanged by our government-run cartel education system. And the tragedy for them - and for us - is that they will spend their energy trying to expand the sphere of the ineffective, hidebound, rent-seeking, unproductive political world, giving the . . .politicians. . .an even stronger whip hand over the Steve Jobses and Henry Fords - and we will be the poorer for it.” PeopleWorldGivingTryingWellsHandsGovernmentRunningPoliticalEnergyClearSawsProductsPoliticianComputerTragedyStrongerSeekingBunchApplesDividesSpheresTelephonesWhipsEducation SystemIphoneUnproductiveCartels Author:Kevin Williams
“You can't go home and look at your plaques at the end of the day, because every politician has like a million plaques on their wall. OK? You don't go home and look at - you don't get anything for that. And you can't go home and say, boy, I really served the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. You want to go home and, you know, Fourth of July, you know, any of these special holidays that recognize our country, you want to feel like you've built a stronger nation, which means you helped build the people and put them in a stronger place where everyone's lifted.” PeopleMeanCountryHomePartyBoysSpecialLike YouWallPoliticianRepublicanStrongerDemocraticHolidayRepublican PartyDemocratic Party Author:John Kasich
“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” PoliticalPoliticsFreedomDemocracyPoliticianVoteStrongerElectionPresidentialVotingBulletsBallotsDemocracies HaveElection DayVoting And DemocracyDemocracy In AmericaElections And VotingPolitics FunnyDodging BulletsInspirational VotingVoting Day Author:Abraham Lincoln