William Howard Taft: Politics

William Howard Taft was American politician, 27th President of the United States (in office from 1909 to 1913). Explore interesting quotes on politics.

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“The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow, he cannot make business good; although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way.”

William Howard Taft

Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (Columbia University Press, 1916)

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“Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.”

William Howard Taft

Quoted in Archibald W. Butt (1930), Taft and Roosevelt.
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“There is only one thing I wast to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think a mistake has been made of recent years in Ohio in failing to continue as our representatives the same people term after term. I do not need to tell a Washington audience, among whom there are certainly some who have been interested in legislation, that length of service in the House and in the Senate is what gives influence.”

William Howard Taft

Speech before the Ohio Society, Washington, D.C.; quoted in the Congressional Record (May 23, 1916), vol. 53, p. 8527.

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“We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.”

William Howard Taft

Source: Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (Columbia University Press, 1916), Chapter 6.

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