Advisors Quote by John Podesta

Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his…

— Thomas Frank

In an age when stagecraft, gauzy themes, and sound-bites have too often been substituted for leadership, Bill Clinton as a candidate made it essential…

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell

I think George Mitchell was the right guy for the right time, and many people will note his spectacular foreign policy accomplishments, both in…

— Barbara Mikulski

Our [former] governor [Pat McCrory] was supposed to be a moderate, but he found himself beholden to people who have much more draconian ideas.…

— John Darnielle

I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in…

— Paul Begala

Bill Clinton is a person who causes a lot of passion both ways about people, and there's certainly a lot of turmoil if you…

— James Carville

Certainly on a political and a legislative level, Bill Clinton was effective, but the example that he ultimately left, I think for posterity, tragically,…

— Joe Eszterhas

Clinton saw himself much more as the steward of alliances and of consensus that moved in the right direction. He didn't see himself as…

— Barton Gellman

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.

— Henry Kissinger

Gary Johnson was a strong governor.

— William Weld

Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.

— Sidney Blumenthal

I was always fascinated by politics, and I did not like the direction the country was going under Bill Clinton.

— Joe Scarborough