Entering Politics Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But even democracies like ours are rife with corruption. The founding fathers had the right idea. They never envisioned professional politicians. They wanted citizen legislators, leaving their farms for a few years to serve their fellow man. A civic responsibility like jury duty. But under our current system, you almost have to be a megalomaniac to have interest in entering the sewer that is politics. And success in this realm requires that backstabbing, shamelessness, lying, and manipulation become an art form. — Douglas E. Richards

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

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