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He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw
Political
Nothing
Everything
Points
He
Clearly
Knows
Political Career
Thinks
Career
When I began my political career, I identified with Malcolm X.
Ayman Odeh
Political
Identified
Political Career
Malcolm
Malcolm X
Began
Career
I started my political career facing lynch mobs.
Bob Filner
Political
Facing
Political Career
Mobs
Started
Career
Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.
Claire McCaskill
Political
Entire
Obviously
Always
Issue
Political Career
Been
Surrounding
Pro-Choice
Candidate
Controversy
Career
The John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics was originally intended to bring scholars and politicians into closer contact, on the assumption that other office-holders can use academics as profitably as Kennedy did during his political career.
Donald E. Graham
Politics
Political
Politicians
Other
Assumption
John
John F. Kennedy
Scholars
Contact
Institute
Academics
Political Career
His
Did
Intended
Closer
Use
Originally
Kennedy
Bring
Career
Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career.
Elliott Abrams
Life
Political
Solely
Administration
Memoir
Entire
About
Entire Life
Cheney
Political Career
His
Bush
Career
Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.
Eric Alterman
Political
Amazing
Holding
Beneath
Unlikely
Obama
Feet
Opponents
Political Career
His
Politically
Who
Appears
Streak
Career
Reagan gave essentially the same speech from the beginning to the end of his political career, which was always, 'The American people are great, the government always screws things up, let's get the government out of the way.' On the foreign policy side it was, 'Communism is bad, and we're going to defeat it.'
H. W. Brands
Government
Great
Communism
People
Political
Beginning
Defeat
Gave
Side
Way
Out
Bad
Policy
Always
Foreign
Reagan
Political Career
Foreign Policy
His
End
Up
Get
American
Same
Going
Essentially
Which
American People
Things
Career
Speech
Back in the early days of my political career, I was called Socialist Cindy. I just hate the nickname Cindy.
Jacinda Ardern
Hate
Political
Cindy
Back
Days
Political Career
Just
Socialist
Nickname
Early
Career
Early Days
I have run across characters in my political career that have that singular focus of being someone, being in a position of power.
Jeff Duncan
Political
Focus
Power
Characters
Run
Someone
Political Career
Singular
Being
Across
Career
Position
The first day you're a leader is the beginning of the end of your political career.
Jenny Shipley
Day
You
Political
Leader
First
Beginning
Political Career
End
Your
Career
I don't have a vested interest in a particular political career or a particular political office. My job is to do everything that I can to create an America and a world that we can live in and that we can survive in.
Jill Stein
World
Political
Job
Live
Everything
Particular
Political Career
Vested
Survive
Vested Interest
Office
America
Interest
Create
Career
My entire political career has been based on building up Britain's political standing and economic prosperity through our membership of the E.U. and the European project.
Kenneth Clarke
Prosperity
Political
Building
Our
Project
Has-Been
Membership
Entire
Economic
Through
Economic Prosperity
Political Career
Been
Up
Standing
European
Based
Career
Britain
Throughout my political career, I've believed in the concept of home rule. Some call it local control. Whichever phrase you use, the concept is the same - the best decisions are those made closest to those who will be impacted by the decisions.
Linda Lingle
Best
Home
You
Political
Will
Made
Control
Local
Rule
Those
Phrase
Impacted
Some
Throughout
Concept
Call
Political Career
Same
Closest
Decisions
Use
Who
Believed
Career
People show surprise that I have interests outside my political career. There is subtle surprise, for example, that I would be interested in a recipe.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
People
Political
Example
Recipe
Would
Would-Be
Outside
For Example
Political Career
Surprise
Subtle
Interested
Interests
Show
Career
I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.
Pat Nixon
Life
Political
Husband
My Life
Consider
Everything
Sacrificed
Advance
Political Career
Precious
Career
I've had a lot of careers in my life. When I think about it, I think every piece of that - from being a nurse, a farmer, dealing with real estate - has added to a skill set that I would have been able to use throughout my political career.
Patty Judge
Life
Political
Real Estate
My Life
Every
Think
Added
Nurse
Would
Able
About
Throughout
Had
Piece
Dealing
Real
Political Career
Been
Lot
Being
Estate
Skill
Use
Farmer
Career
Set
Careers
By the time Clinton graduated from Yale Law School, many people, including her boyfriend Bill, believed she could, and should, embark on a political career. She'd given the Wellesley commencement speech that had earned her a 'Life' write-up of her own.
Rebecca Traister
Life
Time
People
Law
School
Political
Own
Earned
Embark
Law School
Given
Could
Had
She
Yale
Boyfriend
Political Career
Clinton
Commencement
Graduated
Should
Bill
Many
Including
Believed
Her
Career
By The Time
Speech
The beginning of my political career was not promising. I ran for junior class president at Shortridge High school and was runner up. I ran again in the senior year with the same result. But opportunity came ironically, or fortunately, when I returned to Indianapolis after serving in the Navy.
Richard Lugar
Class
Result
School
Political
Opportunity
Year
Beginning
President
Ran
High
Runner
Promising
Runner-Up
High School
Returned
Came
Political Career
Up
Junior
Ironically
Same
Senior
Senior Year
After
Again
Fortunately
Navy
Serving
Career
I think the best thing about my short-lived political career was that I saw the interiors of Bihar and UP. That is the real India, and, being an Indian, it was really sad to see our own people living in such dismal conditions. It was a real eye-opener.
Sanjay Dutt
Sad
Best
People
Political
Own
Living
Think
Our
Saw
India
Indian
See
About
Real
Political Career
Conditions
Up
Being
Short-Lived
Dismal
Really
Interiors
Thing
Career
The truth is truth. I have never made a charge in my political career of 30 years where I have been disapproved. No defamation case has succeeded against me.
Subramanian Swamy
Truth
Me
Truth Is
Political
Made
Charge
Case
Never
Political Career
Been
Years
Where
Against
Succeeded
Defamation
Career
Donald Trump begins his political career in birtherism. That idea is connected to a very, very old notion that African-Americans are not citizens.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Political
Old
Citizens
Idea
Political Career
His
Trump
Very
Begins
Donald
Donald Trump
Notion
Connected
Career
If the price of continuing my political career is to be complicit in a really bad thing then that’s not a price I’m prepared to pay.
David Gauke
Political
Pay
Bad
Complicit
Price
Bad Thing
Political Career
Continuing
Then
Really
Prepared
Thing
Career
I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.
Mitt Romney
Time
Political
Made
Running
Put
Massachusetts
Make
Make A Difference
Go
Political Career
Time And Time
Begin
Difference
Wanted
Place
Again
Things
Career