Career Politician Quotes

#1. I never wanted to be a career politician. I always am interested just to take on challenges that everyone says are impossible to do and to take it on.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#2. I want to be mayor, but I don't need to be mayor. I'm not a career politician.

Dick Murphy

#3. Now is the time to act or get stuck with a bland, boring career politician who will lose to Barack Obama.

Rick Santorum

#4. I think when you've been a career politician for 34 years you have to run on your record.

Carly Fiorina

#5. I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.

Jesse Ventura

#6. I have proudly spent several periods in government, but I'm not a career politician. I come from a family of 'citizen soldiers.'

Jim Webb

#7. I answer that question by saying: 'Why Meg Whitman' which is: I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.

Meg Whitman

#8. I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

Michael Bennet

#9. I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.

Hilary Mantel

#10. My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career.

Helen Suzman

#11. In the search for happiness, However, We r all equal; None of us is Happy - Not the Banker/Actors/Actresses/Politician/Housewife/Model/Doctor and so on.

Avinash Advani

#12. Every one must be familiar with the often expressed opinion, that, as a practical politician, Mr. Mill's career was essentially a failure.

Millicent Fawcett

#13. There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.

John Bolton

#14. The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.

Auberon Herbert