Nikki Haley Quotes

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

I'm the one who's put myself into politics, so I'm the one that really should be wearing that front-facing role.

I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.

I've got three little kids at home, and I'm trying to save this country from itself. I'm not here to play political power games, and I've had enough of people playing political power games, and this has just gone on too long.

Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like I'm contributing, whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago.

I was always complaining that there weren't enough good people going into public service, so I figured I had to get behind someone I found so compelling.

Normally, people give up parliament because they want to do more business or spend more time with family. My wife said 'why don't you say you're giving up to devote more time to politics?'. And it is what I have done.

This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.

Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.

The first duty of an American citizen, then is that he shall work in politics.

Science is my passion; politics, my duty.

Sometime between elections we should concentrate on doing something.

Politics should not be the least heart-filled thing we do, it should be the most heart-filled thing we do.

It kills me not to be there, not to be in the White House doing what needs to be done.

The reasons I put the uniform on are the same reasons I'm running for office.

People often complain that celebrities after joining politics are not seen once the polls are over. But I am not like them. I would work for development.

I'm a person who's always been interested in politics and thought it was a very noble occupation.

I have struggled in life and this has made me sensitive towards the needs of others. Politics gives you the opportunity to really do something.

I'm not a politician. My conscience has brought me before you. Give me a chance to serve you.

It's good to learn and be engaged and listen to people, see what's going on. But that's not the motivator: if I was a political person, I'd have gone into politics.

A lot of people will say to me, they'll say, "When is Trump going to be gone?" People who are thinking that way and are waiting, for those folks I worry that every day when they wake up and Trump is still president, every day is November 9. That's not a good headspace to be in. It just happens to be the case that the best thing you can do to feel better is to be actively engaged in pushing back, and that also happens to be the best thing that you can do for the country right now.

Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.

I probably got from my mom a passion for public policy and and civic involvement.

Sitting out of politics isn't really an option if you don't want things to slide.

I realized that I hated politics. I mean that is you know... I realized being in the jungle that what I had thought I could do, I mean changing the way politics were being done in Colombia, was not possible the way I wanted to do it - by confronting, by denouncing.