Margrethe Vestager Quotes

I - you know, I loved politics more as a younger man.

I hate politics. I like to write about it, but to get involved in it, to try and make a lot of ignorant people do what you want them to do, waste of time. Go and write a book. It's more important and it'll last longer.

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

If I say I am not a politician, it is because I did not go to school to do political science. But at the end of the day, I think we are all born politicians. It's practical. All you gotta do is practice.

I've been involved in politics for quite some time. I've held positions, and my experiences are very deep, and I think I have the capacity, the courage, and the character to institute the kinds of reforms that are so desperately needed.

Florida A&M University was my first real introduction to politics as a heavyweight game.

I have a certain sympathy with politicians having lived with one. I've seen how no matter how earnest or driven or energetic they are, it's still difficult to change things. I have been encouraged to go into politics, but I don't think I could make a contribution, it suits me better to be sniping from the sidelines.

He was my favorite senator... I love him. He made the liberals squeal.

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.

Politics was put in front of me. I do politics because it's the vehicle for change and because I happen to be good at it... I had this sort of calm fearlessness, that some would call foolishness.

I am such a political person.

I'm only sort of a politician.

I'm not in the business of politics.

Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.

I'm not in politics.

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

I've always avoided expressing an opinion about where I think the republican movement should go - if it should go anywhere at all.

I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.

My politics of optimism and hope still casts its lot with the Democrats - in the optimistic hope that the dying embers of its status as the party of our better angels, one that took risks for social justice, can still be fanned into a flame. But I'm an old man, born in 1969.

You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others.

I didn't grow up in politics.

I was always fascinated by politics, and I did not like the direction the country was going under Bill Clinton.

Can I actually make a difference? Can I get people to believe in politics once again? Can I get people to accept more complex answers to complex questions? I know I can. I know that's what I do very well.