Entering Politics Quotes

#1. I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.

Ami Ayalon

#2. There's something to be said for CEOs' entering politics: In theory, they have management expertise and financial savvy. Then again, it didn't work so well with Dick Cheney.

Nicholas Kristof

#3. I am a person that when I go in the street, everybody knows me and goes: 'Oh, you are entering politics.' I want to do something positive for the future. It doesn't mean to become a leader of a party.

Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo

#4. The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.

Harry S. Truman

#5. What I do care about is that it's an obstacle to other women entering politics, because they'll say, "Why would I do that? I have plenty of other options." And women with plenty of options are just the women that we want to be in politics and government.

Nancy Pelosi

#6. I had no intention of entering politics, but then the force of events led me to become involved in politics.

Sergio Mattarella

#7. Some mysterious revenge of nature has seen to it that no poem in praise of drink or tobacco (or snuff, if any) can succeed.

Kingsley Amis

#8. We are entering a new phase of European politics. What is decisive is not only do we have a single currency area, but also that it is accompanied by a co-ordinated economic and financial policy. We must drive forward tax harmonisation in Europe.

Oskar Lafontaine

#9. Living in a castle is objectively romantic.

Lev Grossman

#10. I thank God that I left office the same way I came in: with integrity.

Najib Mikati

#11. If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.

Laura Linney

#12. In Hong Kong, the directors are the idea men.

Andrew Lau

#13. If I were to describe myself as any particular type of owner, it would be a fans' owner because you really get great satisfaction when you can go out on the streets and scream you're No. 1 and you're world champions.

Jeffrey Lurie

#14. He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.

Douglas Adams

#15. Unfortunately, in the world today, we have dogmatic people entering into politics. I don't think the two mix.

Ishmael Reed

#16. In a dictatorship there is no choice, the elections are controlled, the police are the military, fear equals control, speech is suppressed, the economy is looted, the people are slaves.

Alex Jones

#17. When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

Enid Bagnold

#18. It's very important that you never depend on money to fulfill your creative vision. If you do that, you're doomed to fail.

Cliff Martinez

#19. The press always causes a certain amount of hesitance for people who are considering entering public life. So simply encouraging women to enter politics, on any level, not just on the state level, is extremely important.

Kerry Healey

#20. Buying pollution credits is folly; it doesn't help the environment. Instead of using tax dollars to buy credits overseas, we'll use them at home.

Stephen Harper

#21. Whatever he'd once felt for Cinder - or thought he'd felt for her - was over.

Marissa Meyer

#22. A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

Lionel Shriver

#23. If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.

Eleanor Roosevelt