Bernadette Devlin Quotes

I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

So, you know, I actually don't think it's going to be that hard to spread the message to people that their leadership - not alone John Cornyn, but including John Cornyn in a big way - is failing us.

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically.

I've always been involved in politics, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I sold Kool-Aid for McGovern - I could always pick a winner.

At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.

I grew up in a highly political home. My mother was the co-chair of the 300 Group, an organisation whose aim was to get more women MPs into parliament, and she herself stood in the 1987 election, the year before she died.

I'm not a politician or political animal.

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

Whenever anybody gets involved in politics, its always exciting for me because we take for granted our freedoms and our abilities to effect change through political activism.

My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.

I don't see myself in the political realm.

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.

To every woman out there who thinks that they might like to get involved in politics or stand for parliament, I say go for it. If I can do it, so can you.

I'm not in politics.

I haven't been very active in politics.

I admire people who come to politics because it takes a lot of courage to be in politics in India.

I will not ever run for political office. I can assure you.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.

Politics, I believe, is a full-time occupation.

I never thought of politics as a profession.

I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.