When I came into politics I always thought there was a…

One of the reasons I came into politics was because I thought I lacked the skills to be a social worker.

— Margaret Beckett

I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people; you have to educate, and persuade,…

— Ken Livingstone

For me, one of my earliest memories of politics where I thought that I could do anything was when Walter Mondale of Minnesota picked…

— Amy Klobuchar

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

— Charlie Rose

“The single hardest thing for a practicing politician to understand is that most people, most of the time, don’t give politics a first thought…

— Tony Blair

I've learned much more about politics than I thought I ever would.

— Alicia Garza

I think that today, faith drives so much of our politics, that I thought, "If you don't talk about it, you are missing a…

— Barack Obama

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.

— Annie Besant

I've always been infuriated by Bertie, I have to say. I never appreciated his style of politics. I thought it was very superficial, running…

— Lucinda Creighton

The astonishing thing for me is that I had a career before politics and I never thought about my colour.

— Sam Gyimah

I'm sure my desire to perform came, in part, from being around politics as a kid. My dad had a big personality, and a…

— Maura Tierney

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

— Tony Blair

I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.

— Ellen Glasgow

I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.

— Kapil Sibal

Our generation had been told that life had seriousness, and we came in (to politics) with purpose. We were serving history.

— Newt Gingrich