Anna Soubry Quotes

I've always thought Anne-Marie Slaughter would make a fantastic United States Senator or something. She's a real intellectual, but she's got enormous communicative skills and she's got government experience. The thing that drives me slightly crazy is the way we think about intellectuals as wooly, hopeless, arrogant, self-deceived, incapable.

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

I've been a city councilman and mayor. I've been a lieutenant governor and governor and now, in the Senate, serve on the Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committee. So I'm a utility player. I just want to do everything I can to make sure A) we win and that B) the presidency of Hillary Clinton is fantastic.

One of the advantages of getting elected governor when you're 58 instead of 38 is you have some mileage on you and part of that means some history and some relationships with people who have spent a fair amount of their career in the public and in the private sector.

Since 1998, I have served my country as a member of four cabinets and as the leader of the parliamentary opposition.

If the first year of the Trump administration has made anything clear, it's that experience, knowledge, education and political wisdom matter tremendously. Governing is something else entirely from campaigning. And perhaps, most important, celebrities do not make excellent heads of state.

Personally, having, you know, lived and worked in the White House, having been a senator, having been Secretary of State, there has traditionally been a great pool of very talented, hard-working people.

I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics.

Marriage is no substitute for political experience.

I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate.

I think I went into poli-sci because I knew there was a stage, plus I thought I wanted to help people, and I realized in poli-sci that if you want to be a politician you're either born into it, or you've got an amazing brain, which those are rare - and I don't have one.

Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever.

I like lots of career politicians; I'm not against all career politicians.

It is true that I entered parliament at the age of 23, and have now been representing the people of my constituency for over twenty years.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs. I am sad because I love this job. I'm totally dedicated to the work that we are doing in Australia's name around the world, and I believe that we have achieved many good results for Australia, and I'm proud of them.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

The idea of being in the State Department was exciting. On the other hand, I always had in the back of my mind going into politics. If I stayed in Washington, I might end up a government hack.

I have the experience and ability to step in on day one in Washington and start working on the challenging problems facing our country.

If you want to be a policy maker, run for office.

You [the President] invite Congressmen to the White House for dinner. And you know what is does? It puts them in great with their wives, because the wives love to be invited to the White House.

Oh dear. Oh dear. Why do all these old gentlemen feel so confident that they understand foreign affairs.

You don’t make any money in the White House—that’s for darn sure—but you can get things done….The most rewarding experience I have ever had was my three years in the White House.

A man’s got to walk if he is going to be in politics.

I'd like to hire Hillary Clinton. She looks unhappy at the State Department. She'd get ratings.

I was not interested in being minister of defense or minister of foreign affairs.