Atishi Quotes

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 can't get inside the head of a politician today.

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

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

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.

Anything's possible in politics.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

There is absolutely no way that I would enter that world. I would never run for office.

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

Politics, as an end in itself, is a poor business to be in.

Anyone who gets to the top in politics is a control freak.

What gets you out of bed in the morning? This is a question I'm often asked as a politician. It tends to be closely followed by a dozen other questions about what I'll do in 'x' scenario or whether I'll resign if 'y' happens.

Jesus was too smart to ever run for public office. That's what Jesus would do.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.

Being a prime minister is a very demanding job. And as long as I have the strength, I will continue to do this and be of benefit to my country.

I don't have to be in politics.

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

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

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

I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism.

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.

Washington is politics! Somehow if people have political objectives, then those objectives are automatically disqualified? If that's the case, the Democrats have no business being legitimized about anything because everything they do is political.

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.