Top 1200 Political Career Quotes & Sayings

I have made a career out of arguing that we shouldn't be criminalizing political differences. I've made a career out of arguing that the grand jury is an abusive institution. I have made a career out of arguing that we shouldn't stretch and expand the criminal law. I'm not going to change it because you think these are abnormal times. When Thomas Jefferson told the Justice Department that they had to prosecute Aaron Burr, and that he was going to have the chief justice impeached unless he found Aaron Burr guilty, those were special times too.

For me, what is political is very personal. Politics are not this abstract idea. Laws are the rules that dictate how we live our lives. What we eat is political. How we dress is political. Where we live is political. All of these things are influenced by political decision-making, and it's important to be part of the process.

When I began my political career, I identified with Malcolm X.

Infected by political ideology, if you dare question climate models, your career is done.

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

I am a political human being. I have - that's one of my interests. I studied political science in college. I was actually going to get my Ph.D. in poli-sci. And a lot of my material from early on in my career dealt with politics, so I've always considered myself as somebody who enjoys political humor. So I'm not going to stop.

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

All of my political career, I've fought for the taxpayers.

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?

When divorces meant marriage no longer provided security for a lifetime, women adjusted by focusing on careers as empowerment. But when the sacrifice of a career met the sacrifices in a career, the fantasy of a career became the reality of trade-offs. Women developed career ambivalence.

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

Political suicide can end a career.

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

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

I became a prime minister within four-and-a-half years, the shortest kind of career ever in Israeli political history.

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

The adjective "political" in "political philosophy" designates not so much the subject matter as a manner of treatment; from this point of view, I say, "political philosophy" means primarily not the philosophic study of politics, but the political, or popular, treatment of philosophy, or the political introduction to philosophy the attempt to lead qualified citizens, or rather their qualified sons, from the political life to the philosophic life.

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

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. ... you walk with political steps on political ground.

I have always had a serious political career in mind and my secular ideology matches with that of the Congress.

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.

I have spent a lot of my career working on normative political philosophy, developing the 'capabilities approach' to social justice. I have also spent a lot of my career working on the structure of the emotions, and their role in human life.

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.

Mr. Trump had no political or military experience, the traditional routes to high political office. Virtually his only qualification was his business career, and a checkered one at that, considering his own brush with personal bankruptcy.

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

When I was put up as a candidate for this, I was a political person. But after becoming the president, I become non-political, a-political, because president does not then belong to any political party.

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

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

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

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

When I was younger, I used to be very impatient with anyone who wasn't doing overtly political work. I've since come to feel that some writers have an appetite or a need for the political, for political discourse, for historical political subjects.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces a critical test in her political career. Merkel has been under increasing pressure over the European migrant crisis, and recent polls suggest Angela Merkel, who's been the German leader for more than a decade, could lose an election in her political home state.

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

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

I think everybody's political. The act of being alive is political. Unless you choose to be a hermit, you're automatically political because you're part of a community.

I think that Rahm Emanuel`s political career is going to be very difficult to revive after the mismanagement.

The game of political music chairs and finger-pointing by career politicians and agency bureaucrats needs to end.

For years before my Navy enlistment, I had studied the Soviet Union and the KGB's history of political intrigue in preparation for a career in intelligence.

Political views in the hiring of career attorneys and staff should not be used. If I am asked to do that, I will not allow it.

I do suppose what any political satire, what any political joke can count as a gaffe or a possible career-ending move. It changes what counts. I don’t know, I do feel like day to day even though Trump is so terrible and ridiculous, day to day we still laugh at Jason Chaffetz and we still laugh at Ted Cruz and we still laugh at those guys, at just how bad they are at their jobs.

Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

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.

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.

My entire political career has been based on building up Britain's political standing and economic prosperity through our membership of the E.U. and the European project.

I don't have a vested interest in a particular political career or a particular political office. My job is to do everything that I can to create an America and a world that we can live in and that we can survive in.

Earlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up.

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

I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.

I started my political career facing lynch mobs.

It's different for every writer. It's not a career for anyone who needs security. It's a career for gamblers. It's a career of ups and downs.

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.

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

My political career has enriched my knowledge about staying away from negative vibes.

I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions.

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.

There are ups and downs in every political career.

A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to cover anything else.

Leadership is more important than people's political career at times.

There are people with an explicit political bent complaining about people having political agendas while nominating stories with political agendas. Is it political to try to be diverse? Is it political to try to imagine a non-heteronormative society? Yes, because it involves politics. But how do they expect us to not write about our lives?