Allen West Quotes

Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.

You can much better have an influence on the debate when you sit at the bargaining table and you can give input.

What motivated me to dedicate myself to public service for nearly two-thirds of my life was the chance to produce results for those people who entrusted me to be their voice and their champion.

Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.

At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.

My career was always about working with people, and understanding issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and problems. How you deal with people - that's what diplomacy is all about. So while I'm not a career diplomat, many of the skills I had seemed to directly translate into the diplomatic arena.

I don't want to come to Washington to be just another vote. I want to lead on issues that are important.

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

I'm not going to lie to you: being Speaker of the State Assembly is the best job I've ever had in my entire career. But you know, I got into politics 'cause I wanted to make a difference, and I was always raised that one person could make a difference.

The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president, is to get the people in the room and bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country and the state's greater interest ahead of their own personal partisan interest. That's what we did in New Jersey and that's the model for America.

I hope there have been times when I made you all proud, or made you all smile or at least piqued your interest in this wonderful institution we call government.

My family has been in politics a long time in Los Angeles. We very much believe we are elected to represent the people. I mean, I am to give voice to, you know, the over half a million people I represent in my congressional district. I mean, that's the way it works.

The reason why I'm here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me the honor and the privilege of representing you in the United States Senate. Now I'm running for the United State Senate for a simple reason, and that is... I want to win a Nobel Peace prize.

I think we can work through a lot of these issues.

It's been a great privilege to serve the people of Pennsylvania.

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.

A governor can be a very good friend to people. A governor can be a formidable force.

We represent the people and we will do so in a way which allows us to interact with the people.

In government, consensus is more important than command; persuasion not only works better than arrogance, it's vital to the democratic process.

As a U.S. Senator, I've tried my best to practice politics the way I think it's supposed to be practiced - always looking for common ground and truly enjoying the people I meet along the way.

It is our job, our responsibility as their representatives to help them. If we choose not to do that, we should not be their representatives.

All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.

I love good and caring lawyers who are advocates, who are defenders, who are problem-solvers, and who are peacemakers.

By running, you're making that commitment that says, 'I'm dedicating myself to public service.' Win or lose, you're making that statement, and you actually are taking a step in that direction.