“A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.”– Peter Jennings Related Quotes “In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.”– Catherine the Great “The fallback position in politics is if you don’t know what you want to be about, and if you don’t know what your vision is, go at somebody else.”– Karl Rove “My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that’s the permanent campaign, part of that’s a word I’ve been using more frequently, ‘tribal.’ Our politics has become tribal: It’s us versus them.”– Evan Bayh