Young Politician Quotes

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

When I was elected at age 27 to the New York City Council I immediately became Minority Leader. I was the only Republican.

I was elected to Westminster when I was 25; I was Britain's youngest MP.

These guys were the real owners of the country, and for them to discuss with this young guy who becomes a member of the government was absolutely unacceptable.

My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico. Then I moved back to Kenya shortly after I turned one, and I grew up in Kenya.

Jason McDermott can be the most ingratiating young man: a born politician.

I first decided to run for Congress when I was 29 - and became a Representative at the age of 30.

So, I've learned - as a young Democrat, I've learned to think cautiously before offering advice to Nancy Pelosi.

When I was a young co-ed at Arizona State University, my sister was the president of the College Republicans. I was her secretary.

The challenge for me was not just the prosthetic work and how to move like an older man would move, but more so how to have 50 years of experience in the workplace and talk to a young Robert F. Kennedy as if he was some political upstart that didn't know what the hell he was talking about. That was the big challenge [in the J. Edgar Hoover mоvie].

The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business.

Marco Rubio is interesting because he checks so many boxes when you think about what a Republican nominee needs. He brings Florida, he's young, he's Hispanic, the Tea Party likes him. But that said, he's got issues, actually surprisingly, ironically, with Mexican-American voters.