Political Motivation Quotes

I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.

Not one of the Senators who voted to confirm Clarence Thomas would hire him as their lawyer.

Politicians have no politics.

No man should have a political office because he wants a job.

Unfortunately, the Obama administration is more interested in furthering its political agenda than in following the law.

Young men are obsessed with their dads, and they remain obsessed if the dad is not around. Remember that there was a lot of discussion about how George W. Bush might have invaded Iraq to atone for the failures of his dad.

Some residents, I suspect, may be politically motivated in suggesting that having two members of Congress lessens Montclair's clout. Quite to the contrary. I think it increases Montclair's visibility - as a matter of fact, Essex County's visibility.

Self-interest is not only a legitimate but a fundamental cause for national policy—one which needs no cloak of hypocrisy.

There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

Because exploration is not science driven, you've got to ask what is it driven by? And it's driven by politics.

If you're trying to understand why it is that certain things happen in Sacramento and certain things don't, at the end of the day, it comes down to the issue of incentives: We do what we're incentivized to do.

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've decided to get into active politics on Narendra Modiji's request. I don't know how successful I will be, but I'll give it my best shot.

I think I'm becoming a psychologist in explaining the Republican Party. It's the only way you can explain 'em. It's psychological.

Maybe John Kerry does not know - but I am happy to explain it to him - that my commitment to withdraw the troops goes back before the tragic, dramatic terrorist attack.

If politicians are good copy, I like them. If not, I don’t care about them.

Does it make any sense at all that the chair of a national party would want fewer voters to see our candidates?

When I ran for governor, was I ambitious? Yes. Anyone, male or female, who goes through the trials of a campaign must be ambitious.

When voter get a chance to vote, they vote their hopes rather than their fears.

Politics changes lives. You would expect me, as a politician, to say that. But I don't say it as a politician: I say it as someone whose own life was changed.

It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone.

What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

I think maybe the people in elected positions are more interested in preserving their jobs than in doing the best job possible.