I understand clearly as a freshman in Congress, you don't get to steer the bus.
I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.
Mr. Trump had no political or military experience, the traditional routes to high political office. Virtually his only qualification was his business career, and a checkered one at that, considering his own brush with personal bankruptcy.
Up until Trump announced his candidacy, the conventional wisdom was that you had to be a professional politician in order to run. You had to have a background that was politically scrubbed. In other words, smart people who didn't live perfect lives could never run.
Donald Trump is not a politician and has not been around the Hill like many of the other candidates were.
Where I'm an outsider is, I'm not a career politician.
I am not a career politician, even though this is my 12th year in the United States House of Representatives.
I haven't been in politics too long so that's a good thing.
I still have that new senator smell.
