Mehbooba Mufti Quotes

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.

I lost my first run for office, but I developed a great love for grassroots politics.

The last thing I expected in the world was to end up being involved in a presidential campaign.

I spent some time in Vegas when I was doing some canvassing for Obama back in 2008.

I... grew up in politics and I used to work for the Democratic Party.

Politics is my life. If I had a hobby, it would be politics.

This fall I became quite a politician, rather an unladylike profession ...

We've learned how to use the alternative media-political direct mail and talk radio and cable TV-to build our movement and convert more and more Americans to our cause. "Liberal" is now such an unpopular label with the American people that every liberal I know has run for cover and calls himself a "progressive.

We must challenge to fight at every level, including Congress and to make that challenge political and to organize as a political party is how we get traction.

I don't think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.

I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.

If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

I definitely learned about the inner workings of campaigns enough to know that I'm glad that I'm not in politics.

I'm not in the business of politics.

I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.

I probably enjoy campaigning more than most other people in public office because I like people and I enjoy going out there and telling people what I've done.

I haven't been very active in politics.

I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office.

I will continue my involvement in politics through Lord Ashcroft Polls and my political publishing interests: Conservative Home, Biteback Publishing and Dods.

When I turned 18, was the first time that I really started concentrating on politics. And I started doing so because I realized that in order to really create and generate change, it has to come from changing laws... so I started campaigning for Norman Lear's foundation, which was Declare Yourself.

I got into politics when I was eight years old.

The best, most interesting years of my life were spent in government and politics.

You can’t win if you don’t play. The people who get involved in politics are more likely to get their way.

[On political campaigns:] Get an elbow, give an elbow.

If you're going to get into the political business, you've got to be intensively competitive.