Sandi Toksvig Quotes

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

I never imagined in my life that I will fight elections or form a political party.

I was a chairwoman of my state Democratic party.

I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work! I don't really have the personality for that.

I'm only sort of a politician.

The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you're working for a political party, is that everyone's a messenger.

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

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

In 1999, I established my political party.

I'm very much engaged in the political battles. But I'm doing it as a supporter of Republicans... rather than as an active candidate.

I'm not giving up politics entirely - I'm just giving up leadership of a political party.

As a politician, I spent a lot of time in Washington and New York, cities that are familiar to Europeans.

The point of a political party is to attract a broad base of members and activists and lots of them.

I am joining politics for sure.

Zhvania was the general secretary of the organisation which I founded, the Citizens' Union. It was the biggest organisation and came first in all elections, and Zhvania was the leader.

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.

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've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.

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

When you enter the realm of politics, you don't enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song.

I never thought of politics as a profession.

Part of the reason I am so evangelical in our campaigning work is that I had an unshakeable faith in Labour values, but we needed a machine worthy of the message. I grew up with a peerless Conservative machine, with vastly superior resources.

I'm not a policy wonk, and I don't dream of being a political operative.

I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.

I was not a politician.