Political Goals Quotes

To want to become the President is, I think, such a bizarre ambition that it is automatically deranging.

My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.

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 don't have time to think about my pre-politics days. I am so very busy.

The Labor Party is a party with no ideals, regulations or laws, and it is a party I will not be a part of.

Regime change cannot be the objective of military action.

I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.

If my goal were to spread democracy, Iraq would be the last country that I would use as a demonstration.

When people say all politicians are the same, ask yourself if Obama was the same as Bush, if Francois Hollande is the same as Sarkozy. They are not. They are human beings with different views and different visions for the world.

Whether politicians are dealing with complex policy problems or trying to communicate with the electorate, it makes sense to establish a clear, long term narrative underpinned by forward-looking policies to deliver on its vision.

Terrorism is the intentional use of, or threat to use violence against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain political aims.

Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.

I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they do is hold roundtables and release political statements, which is all well and good. But there are concrete things that need to get done in order to achieve the basic goal of every opposition politician.

When I launched my first campaign in 1999, I knew that the arc of my public service would have many chapters.

That's the thing about terrorism - it works. Especially for the terrorists - they might not get what they want but it feels damn good trying.

I have big ideas. If you don't like them, don't vote for me.

Promoting democracy is one goal of U. S. foreign policy dating back at least 100 years. But it has always been one goal of many, often negated and outweighed by other competing interests.

A great politician has to bother himself less with means than with goals.

The thing that interests me most about Scotland is how we differ from our neighbours. How do our ambitions differ? What kind of society are we? What can we learn from the mistakes of the past, and how do we position ourselves in the world?

I have no political aspiration.

I wasn't one of those people who had some grand plan to become Prime Minister. I'm a normal person. When I was being foolish in my twenties, when I was at university, I wasn't thinking I was going to become an MP.

Democracy is not only the right to vote, it is also about not resorting to violence in order to reach political goals and respecting agreements signed by former governments.

Victory means exit strategy. And it's important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is.

A political party is about an ideology. And I don't think my goals in politics can match the ideology of any political party.

A terrorist is one who kills innocents for the pursuit of a political aim.