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  • 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.

  • It's time to replace career politicians with citizen's politicians. It's time to elect people who are going to stand up to the Washington elite and stand up to a White House and Congress hell-bent on ramming socialism down our throat

    Careers   White   People  
  • 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.

    Party   Law   Careers  
    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with experience in the real world, not experience in the phony world of politics.

    Country   Jobs   Real  
  • No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.

    Two   Numbers   Political  
    Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.88, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • 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.

  • Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger.

    Leadership   Lying   Eye  
  • 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.

    Party   Careers   Leader  
    Source: www.npr.org
  • The traits in career politicians the public detests most are produced when ego triumphs over principle.

    Careers   Political   Ego  
  • 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.

    "First on CNN: Palin calls both McCain and Trump heroes" by Jake Tapper, edition.cnn.com. July 20, 2015.
  • He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

    Major Barbara (1907) act 3
  • People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.

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

    "Santorum Revives Bush Coalition" by Chris Stirewalt, www.foxnews.com. January 6, 2012.
  • 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.

    Money   People   Want  
  • Sarah Palin has decided not to run for President and go straight to the quitting part.

    FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Oct 05, 2011
  • [I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians.

    Death   Careers   Support  
  • The career politicians in Washington had transformed a government "for the people" into a government for themselves and for special interests.

    Senator Tom Coburn, John Hart (2013). “Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders”, p.21, Thomas Nelson
  • 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.

    Party   Careers   Guy  
    Ted Cruz at GOP primary debate in Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.
  • If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.

  • I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less

    "CNBC's Larry Kudlow Speaks With California Gubernatorial Candidates Republican Meg Whitman & Democrat Jerry Brown Tonight on CNBC's 'The Kudlow Report'". www.cnbc.com. July 16, 2010.
  • 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.

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

    Careers   Want   Needs  
  • 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.

    Running   Years   Careers  
    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • 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.

    Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
  • In order to change the direction of this country, we need to change presidents. Americans need a conservative businessman to get this economy moving again, not career politicians. That is why I am running. Next week, I will lay out my specific plan to put America back to work.

    "Politicians React To The Awful August Jobs Numbers" by Zeke Miller, businessinsider.com. September 2, 2011.
  • 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.

    Source: www.usatoday.com
  • I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.

    Party   Careers   Lines  
    "My other life: Hilary Mantel" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2009.
  • I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.

    Interview with Teddy Davis, abcnews.go.com. November 17, 2009.
  • 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.

  • 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?

    Tired   Careers   Greed  
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