William E. Gladstone Quotes

Without political will, nothing moves forward.

What gets you out of bed in the morning? This is a question I'm often asked as a politician. It tends to be closely followed by a dozen other questions about what I'll do in 'x' scenario or whether I'll resign if 'y' happens.

Remember, I'm not running against Rick Perry; I'm running against apathy.

People respond to vision, not need.

Politics was put in front of me. I do politics because it's the vehicle for change and because I happen to be good at it... I had this sort of calm fearlessness, that some would call foolishness.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me... And when you are a young man, you don't get a calculator out saying, 'Am I going to get to power?' You get propelled forward by idealism.

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.

I - you know, I loved politics more as a younger man.

I have no political aspirations. That's it.

You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

People like passion in politics.

I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics.

I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will.

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

Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics.

Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

Sometime between elections we should concentrate on doing something.

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

My first passion is politics.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.