When I first arrived, I likened Congress to being back in school again as a freshman. Well, just like school, we have an 'August recess,' but don't let the name fool you - it's not even close to a vacation.
Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
Those of us who work in politics can only make ourselves useful if our heads are filled with things that we can contribute to the political space.
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.
The country needs the political work of women today as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.
Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything.
Through my political work in D.C., and having done 'Milk' I got to know a lot of gay octogenarians. They are lovely and they like to tell their stories, and I like hearing them.
We leave our personal ideologies at the door... We only work for mainstream political parties.
You walk into Air Force One. It's like a surreal experience, in a certain way, but you have to get over it, because there's so much work to be done, whether it's jobs or other nations that truly hate us. You have to get over it.
I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets.
Sometimes people just don't understand the way that I work in politics.
The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
A figure who receives money from abroad for his political work, and thus serves some foreign interest, cannot be a politician in Russia.
I am a full-time political worker.
There is a serious tendency towards capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. This tendency will become rampant if we in the slightest way neglect political work among the peasants during the co-operative movement and for a very long period after.
When I was younger, I used to be very impatient with anyone who wasn't doing overtly political work. I've since come to feel that some writers have an appetite or a need for the political, for political discourse, for historical political subjects.
I've done work for both Democrats and Republicans.
I have to do my work as party leader and that's what I'm concentrating on.
I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.
I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political.
My focus has been on being a good congressman, and there is so much other work to do.
My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.
Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.
I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
[Referring to constituent services:] It's not the stuff that makes great news, but it's life and death to the people involved.
