Caroline Lucas Quotes

That's what it's all about for Trump. It's always about winning - winning for Trump, by making him look good in each day's reality-television production. It's never been about the country.

We really can't tell the difference between people who might seek power for some greater good and people who seek power just to aggrandize themselves. For example, all revolutionaries say that they want to uplift the downtrodden.

Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection, since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious.

My belief is the majority of people in politics are just interested in pursuing this career in politics, and doing what's necessary to get themselves re-elected. And if that happens to coincide with the public good, great. But if it doesn't, the public good loses out.

Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics.

For Trump, it's always about Trump and only Trump.

[Barack] Obama has little, if any, principles except to aggrandize and make himself more and more important.

Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.

Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

If you run for mayor, people say you're being egotistical. If you decide you won't run for mayor, people say you're being self-centered and egotistical.

Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.

The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

No man will work for your interests unless they are his.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name.

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

The single biggest weakness that politicians have as a group is that they want people to like them.

I have watched these politicians in our movement. I followed their methods and regardless of how they talk of their trade union loyalty, my experience has been that when they enter the political arena they begin by talking as politicians, and very soon thinking like politicians, to the desertion of every trade union activity they pledged themselves to become part of

A politician cannot separate his own personal advantage from his own political advantage.

Politics are now nothing more than the means of rising in the world.

Most politicians make decisions based on their own best interest rather than the greater good.

For Trump, it's always about Trump and how he makes more money.

In the push and pull of Washington politics, Thom Tillis has decided there are things more important than representing North Carolina. He has put his own political interests, and serving the special interests, ahead of North Carolina's interests.