Political Career Quotes

#1. The John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics was originally intended to bring scholars and politicians into closer contact, on the assumption that other office-holders can use academics as profitably as Kennedy did during his political career.

Donald E. Graham

#2. The beginning of my political career was not promising. I ran for junior class president at Shortridge High school and was runner up. I ran again in the senior year with the same result. But opportunity came ironically, or fortunately, when I returned to Indianapolis after serving in the Navy.

Richard Lugar

#3. I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.

Pat Nixon

#4. I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives. I raised my children as a single mother when my husband was arrested and held for eight years without a conviction - a hostage to my political career.

Benazir Bhutto

#5. I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.

Mitt Romney

#6. Well, why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good square look at the inmates? As weird a gaggle of freaks and sub-humans as was ever collected in one spot.

P.G. Wodehouse

#7. He was never rash or hurried, but he was always read. It was the secret, no doubt, of the extraordinary political career he threw away for my sake; it was also the explanation of his belief in me and devotion to my mission. When I came, he was ready. Nobody else on Winter was.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#8. My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates.

Dennis Kucinich

#9. I mean, people need to remember without the grassroots, Ronald Reagan probably doesn't become president of the United States of America and he worked the grassroots on a regular basis during his political career and especially between the years of 1976 and 1980 after the loss in Kansas City.

Michael Reagan

#10. No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

James Bryce

#11. If women decide that their mission, their political career, balances out what they have to give up, they can be and are equally successful as men.

Dalia Grybauskaite

#12. I feel fortunate that, by the age of 40, I had crammed in an entire political career.I had been in the Cabinet and been leader of the party, so now I can branch out into other things ... it is a very liberating feeling.

William Hague

#13. Would I sacrifice a friendship to take a step forward in my political career? Thus far in my political career, I have been spared from having to make such a decision, thank God. And I can't imagine what it must be like.

Martin Schulz

#14. I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

Bianca Jagger

#15. A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

James Bryce

#16. He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

George Bernard Shaw

#17. Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.

Eric Alterman

#18. Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.

Claire McCaskill

#19. There are so many societies, so many churches, so many -isms, that it is almost impossible for an independent man to succeed in a political career.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#20. Being Jewish and having lost relatives in the Holocaust, I've always been aware of the meaning of prejudice. These are things that have remained with me throughout my political career.

Bernie Sanders

#21. I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring, but I did very well.

Dan Quayle

#22. I had a dream about you. I was sitting on your couch, relating my succession of ideas on subconscious influence. I asked you what they meant, and you told me that free associations were a bad way to advance my political career.

Bauvard

#23. I have dedicated my political career to bringing fairness to America's economic system and to our work force, regardless of what people look like or where they may worship.

Jim Webb

#24. By the time his political career began, he was in command of an artwork of lies elaborate enough to support his smallest need. He could shave the truth by a hair or subvert it altogether.

Norman Mailer

#25. Jason McDermott's political career, however bogus, appears to have had an early and promising start.

Bill Dedman

#26. After his failed political career, Lincoln often pondered the question of the purpose of the meaning of life. In 1850 [ten years before he was elected President], Lincoln told Herdon [his law partner] How hard, oh how hard it is to die and leave one's country no better than if one had never lived.

Ronald C. White Jr.

#27. Maybe unlike a lot of people who join the SNP today, I never had any expectation of a political career.

Nicola Sturgeon

#28. I started my political career facing lynch mobs.

Bob Filner

#29. I think the best thing about my short-lived political career was that I saw the interiors of Bihar and UP. That is the real India, and, being an Indian, it was really sad to see our own people living in such dismal conditions. It was a real eye-opener.

Sanjay Dutt

#30. The first day you're a leader is the beginning of the end of your political career.

Jenny Shipley

#31. In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

Ken Buck

#32. Throughout my political career, I've believed in the concept of home rule. Some call it local control. Whichever phrase you use, the concept is the same - the best decisions are those made closest to those who will be impacted by the decisions.

Linda Lingle

#33. Why, over her political career has Wall Street been a major - the major campaign contributor to Hillary Clinton? You know, maybe they're dumb and they don't know what they're going to get, but I don't think so.

Bernie Sanders

#34. During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective, ...

Preston Manning

#35. I'm not sure I had a political career for the future anyway. I'm not sure that politics was what I wanted to spend my life doing.

John Edwards

#36. It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

Thomas Paine

#37. People show surprise that I have interests outside my political career. There is subtle surprise, for example, that I would be interested in a recipe.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

#38. Immigration is the most explosive issue I've seen in my political career.

Mark McKinnon

#39. Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career.

Elliott Abrams

#40. It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Auberon Waugh

#41. Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life.

Raisa Gorbacheva

#42. The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that.

David Herbert Donald

#43. Thatcher was the motivation for my entire political career. I hated everything she stood for.

Nicola Sturgeon

#44. In honor of Surgeon General Koop's legacy, we should ensure that the position of surgeon general is protected from political interference, funded appropriately and nominated from the ranks of career public health professionals who merit consideration, as is done in the other uniformed services.

Richard Carmona

#45. Where else, in a non-totalitarian country, but in the political profession is the individual expected to sacrifice all-including his own career-for the national good?

John F. Kennedy

#46. Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn't been a satirist or a political satirist who's done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign. But I think it's a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.

Al Franken

#47. The member of Congress who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world.

Robert Novak

#48. ... as I said; the Nazi party was built on ruined lives - a failed career, the bitterness that feeds on injustice, redemption promised by a radical political movement.

Alan Furst

#49. Political suicide can end a career.

John Major

#50. A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.

Susan Cheever

#51. And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.

Judy Woodruff

#52. Hillary Clinton's younger brother Tony is facing criticism for using the Clintons' political connections to help his career. So on the down side, she has a sketchy brother named Tony. On the up side, she just locked up every vote in New Jersey.

Jimmy Fallon

#53. I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.

Christine Lahti

#54. I saw America's economy last night, people raiding dumpsters at a higher rate than normal in my home town. Digging through garbage shouldn't be a career. Thanks Democrats. Thanks Republicans.

Carroll Bryant

#55. Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.

Neil Kinnock

#56. My research career has been devoted to understanding human decision-making and problem-solving processes. The pursuit of this goal has led me into the fields of political science, economics, cognitive psychology, computer science and philosophy of science, among others.

Herbert A. Simon

#57. People are just people, no matter what their career or social standing may be. -Guy

S.L. Wallace

#58. Science, I had come to learn, is as political, competitive, and fierce a career as you can find, full of the temptation to find easy paths

Paul Kalanithi

#59. Career politicians do not have the courage to prioritize spending and say no to demanding special interest groups who do not reflect the best interests of the country.

Tom Coburn

#60. Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.

James McGreevey

#61. I have been a print reporter my whole career. It's all I ever wanted to be. I specialize in political profiles. I have probably profiled hundreds of people over the years, people in very powerful positions. People don't always like what I write, but most people still talk to me.

Mark Leibovich

#62. The traits in career politicians the public detests most are produced when ego triumphs over principle.

Tom Coburn

#63. Again and again in his career, Hamilton committed the same political error: he never knew when to stop, and the resulting excesses led him into irremediable indiscretions.

Ron Chernow

#64. Political skills are essential career competencies to get ahead and stay ahead.

Bonnie Marcus

#65. My father was career military. He was a veteran, he was a doctor of political science, he taught at West Point and Air Command Staff and lectured at the War College.

Suzanne Collins

#66. When political correctness first started coming around, it ruined Andrew Dice Clay and Eddie Murphy's stand-up career. Sam Kinison died at just the right time, 'cause no one was going to tolerate what he was saying anymore either.

Artie Lange

#67. My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.

Daniel Pipes

#68. You get so tired of political correctness. I'm noted for speaking out all my career.

Joe Arpaio

#69. Every woman with a career has to make sacrifices when it comes to her children. It's no different with me, as a political activist, than with businesswomen, of which there are thankfully more and more in Russia. Or a female cabinet minister.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#70. Patricia Nixon gave up a career to become a political wife. She rose to the pinnacle of glory and then fell to disgrace because of deeds over which she had neither control nor knowledge.

Karen DeCrow

#71. I spent most of my career in business not saying the word 'woman.' Because if you say the word 'woman' in a business context, and often in a political context, the person on the other side of the table thinks you're about to sue them or ask for special treatment, right?

Sheryl Sandberg