Best politician & career-politicians Quotes

“I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise.”

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Author:Elizabeth Emken

“Some people love money and get into politics. If they love money so much, they should get into commerce, industry, or do whatever they want - it's no sin. But politics is for serving the people.”

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Author:Jose Mujica

“I want to be mayor, but I don’t need to be mayor. I’m not a career politician.”

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Author:Dick Murphy

“The problem we have is not Democrats versus Republicans. It is a Washington cartel. I've said many times the biggest divide we have politically is not between Republicans and Democrats. It's between career politicians in both parties and the American people.”

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Author:Ted Cruz

“The court follows elite opinion, not public opinion. And Democratic leaders in Congress and Republican leaders in Congress follow elite opinion as well. It's what I've called "the Washington cartel." It's career politicians in both parties. It is lobbyists and giant corporations.”

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Author:Ted Cruz

“Im looking for leaders who are going to go to Washington for a season, not career politicians. People who understand that the strength of America comes from the private sector, not Washington, D.C.”

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Author:Keith Rothfus

“One thing was very clear and I made it always very clear at the beginning when I got into the governorship, and that was that I wasn't trying to become a career politician. This was not like I was going to be governor for seven years and then I was going to run for the Senate and then for Congress. That was never my interest.”

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Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.”

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Author:Rick Scott

“I never wanted to be a career politician. I always am interested just to take on challenges that everyone says are impossible to do and to take it on.”

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Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“[I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians.”

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Author:Bill Frist

“Trump is the candidate giving voice to untold millions of fed-up Americans witnessing a purposeful destruction of our economy and the equal opportunity for success that made America exceptional, we're watching career politicians throw away our kids' future through bankrupting public budgets and ripping open our porous borders which, obvious to all us non-politicians, puts us at great risk.”

“If you're looking for someone to go to Washington, to go along to get along, to get - to agree with the career politicians in both parties who get in bed with the lobbyists and special interests, then I ain't your guy.”

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Author:Ted Cruz

“The career politicians in Washington had transformed a government "for the people" into a government for themselves and for special interests.”

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Book:Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

Source: Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

“Career politicians do not have the courage to prioritize spending and say no to demanding special interest groups who do not reflect the best interests of the country.”

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Author:Tom Coburn

“The traits in career politicians the public detests most are produced when ego triumphs over principle.”

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Author:Tom Coburn

“Every time I would give a talk, someone would say, 'You ought to go into politics.' I prefer to call it government leadership. My life has taken me to places where I have experiences that I think I can share. A lot of times, we see people who are career politicians. I'm not the conventional candidate, nor do I want to be.”

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Author:Brad Wenstrup

“Now is the time to act or get stuck with a bland, boring, career politician who will lose to Barack Obama.”

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Author:Rick Santorum

“Aren't you tired of these career politicians on the left side of the aisle moralizing about the greed of the 'wealthy' when these same politicians habitually buy votes with borrowed dollars? Who are they to lecture those who actually produce and contribute to the economy?”

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Author:David Limbaugh

“This is the difference between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and Sen. Kaine. They are career public servants. Donald Trump is a businessman, not a career politician. He built a business.”

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Author:Mike Pence

“The Democratic Party is a closed clique. They are not the best and brightest. They're not the smartest. They haven't had to prove themselves in the market in many of these peoples' cases, the career politicians. This is the establishment. This is the elites. Their concerns just have very little in common. Illegal immigration, to complain about it is so, so uninformed and so small-minded. They never encounter, they never face the consequences of their own laws. They don't face the consequences of their own directives or actions.”

“I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.”

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Author:Hilary Mantel

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