Gro Harlem Brundtland Quotes

To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.

[Hillary Clinton] is going to decide war, peace, and health, education, livelihood for my kids. I want the best person.

At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

I realized that becoming a doctor, I can only help a small community. But by becoming a politician, I can help my whole country.

The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.

I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.

Government is about hard choices.

No man can be a politician except he be first a historian.

Good government

Becoming a doctor, I can only help my village. By becoming a politician I can help my whole country.

Politics is about making institutions work somewhat better, helping people’s lives at the margins

I'm doing a good job in Washington.

We need a leader who puts the health and well-being of the country ahead of 2016 politics.

I have been a civil servant and a politician for over 30 years.

As the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, I see on a daily basis the impact of politics and policy on my family, neighbors, friends, and residents.

Are we going to be risk-averse about health care, education, child well-being, or are we going to set aside those attitudes, which we find in government all too often, and lead?

I'm intrigued by being in public office.

In 26 years of delivering babies, I've always been interested in government and the state of the union.

Jack Geiger, for example, was a leader of that movement. He was part of Physicians for Social Responsibility, which was kind of one of the ways that I worked my way into social activism in medicine.

In business, you don't necessarily need heart, whereas here, in government, almost everything affects people. So if you're talking about health care - you have health care in business but you're trying to just negotiate a good price on health care, et cetera, et cetera. You're providing health. Here, everything, pretty much everything you do in government, involves heart, whereas in business, most things don't involve heart. In fact, in business you're actually better off without it.

I've spent 30 years, actually maybe a little more, working to help kids and families. And I want to take all that experience to the White House and do that every single day.

Whether you change the linen or stitch up wounds, cook the food or dispense the medicines, it is in your hands to help build a public service worthy of all those who gave their lives for the dream of democracy

I practiced medicine up 'til now. I practice psychiatry. I shifted from different specialties. I started as a village doctor - community doctor, public health preventive medicine.