Career Politician Quotes

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job some Republican wants.

I am humbled by the opportunity to serve the people of West Tennessee, but I never intended to become a career politician.

After 30 years in Washington, it is clear that Mitch McConnell has lost touch with our state, its people, and our values.

Right now we have an economy in trouble, and someone who spent their career in the economy is more suited to help fix the economy than someone who spent his life in politics and as a community organizer.

I am not a career politician, even though this is my 12th year in the United States House of Representatives.

A Senator of the United States … serves his people by joining in the petty squabbles that occupy so much time of the Senate today. I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I’d rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it.

Donald Trump is a businessman, not a career politician. He actually built a business. Those tax returns that were - that came out publicly this week show that he faced some pretty tough times 20 years ago. But like virtually every other business, including the New York Times not too long ago, he used what's called net operating loss. We have a tax code that actually is designed to encourage entrepreneurship in this country.

I think the arrogance of people who think or actually are in the establishment, think they're part of it or actually are, they cannot help themselves, apparently. They take this guy, Trump, who is not a politician, in the career sense, and they plug him into their system and analyze what he does and what he says the way they analyze professional politicians and what they say and do, and they miss it. Which is not news. The news is they're not even getting close to understanding it yet. Despite the never-ending efforts on the part of people like me to help them figure it out.

Every man who has been in office a few years believes he has a life estate in it.

Senator [John] Kerry has been in Washington long enough to have taken both sides on every issue.

John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich.

This woman [Hillary Clinton] is as steeped and deep inside the establishment as anybody in this campaign.

Now is the time to act or get stuck with a bland, boring, career politician who will lose to Barack Obama.

Once you're in the House for a few terms, it's hard to leave.

I think when you've been a career politician for 34 years you have to run on your record.

Pence is the very personification of the career politician. With the exception of a few years doing talk radio and television shows, he has done nothing but run for office, winning all but the first two times.

This is the difference between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and Sen. Kaine. They are career public servants. Donald Trump is a businessman, not a career politician. He built a business.