The first day you're a leader is the beginning of the end of your political career.
I felt that if the public found out that a black man made a fool of David Duke, his attempts at a political career would have fallen by wayside.
I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.
I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.
My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates.
Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career.
I have run across characters in my political career that have that singular focus of being someone, being in a position of power.
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.
Immigration is the most explosive issue I've seen in my political career.
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.
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.
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.
In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
The fact is that the diversity in this political class serves the same interest as diversity in any arena, which is it stirs the competitive pot.
Whatever your issue, your cause, the festering problem you thought would be resolved - the political class has failed you.
Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.
Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.
When I first ran for governor, the political class and party leaders opposed me with great vigor, and some even said if I won the primary they would never vote for me. But the voters had other ideas, and they are the only ones who count.
The problem with the professional political class is they make money regardless of who wins.
Senator Michael Bennet and members of the permanent political class have empowered President Obama's policies and their own agendas rather than the needs of constituents.
