Political Commitment Quotes

As leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, I commit to work with all Conservatives to live up to the promise of our great country.

So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.

I would reject wholeheartedly any notion of a Labour Party that is not committed to returning to power at the first opportunity. Of course that needs to be principled power. But standing on the sidelines looking for the purest ideology is a dereliction of the duty for any Labour member.

I don't have time to think about my pre-politics days. I am so very busy.

In politics, loyalty is everything.

The Labor Party is a party with no ideals, regulations or laws, and it is a party I will not be a part of.

It must be assumed that members of Congress are just as patriotic as we [the military] are.

When I was elected to Congress, I made a commitment to my constituents that my office would set the standard to be open and transparent.

No senior politician can expect to have work-life balance. I'm afraid there are some jobs for which work-life balance inevitably goes out the window. If you want work-life balance you just have to accept that you can't be a senior member of a government, or for that matter a senior member of an opposition.

For me, politics is not a career. For me, my career was being in business and starting a business and making it successful. My - my life's passion has been my family, my faith, and my country.

[Campaign] Promises forecast governance.

Being a part of a political party is something like being a partner in a marriage -- work at it and stay loyal to it, and when you can't stomach it any longer, leave it.

Gordon Brown is and always will be committed to the interests of big business, so there's no way I want to be involved in the Labour Party again.

The American system is, in many ways, more difficult, certainly far more expensive and much longer than a parliamentary system, and I really admire the people who subject themselves to it. Even when I, you know, think they should not be elected president, I still think, well, you know, good for you I guess, you're out there promoting democracy and those crazy ideas of yours.

I take running for president and being president really seriously. It's a - maybe the toughest job in the world, right? And I knew that there was unfinished business from the successful two terms of President Obama, whom I had served, but that we needed to go further on the economy, on health care, and so much else.

I entered the Communist Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just.

I thank the voters of Upstate N.Y. for this privilege to serve and pledge to continue to work tirelessly on their behalf in this final term.

Political life is like this - elections go back and forth. Representative democracy can only be successful if one sits down and says, 'That's it. I will connect myself,' - as I did - 'connect my existence to a political project.' Then you automatically have in your party a lot of people who say, 'If that fails, so do I'.

There will be no surprises and no excuses from a Coalition government, Barrie.

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.

I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.

Never will we be able to understand our times if we naively 'think' of this system of self Government as the work of a few gangsters or the creation of a pack of criminals we call a political party. The appeal of Socialism, Fascism and communism was principally negative; they were protests against a live and let live anything goes liberalism, a spineless indifference to causes, a failure to recognize that nothing was evil enough to hate, and nothing was good enough to die for.

When I chose to run for public office, I pledged to stand with the people of Nevada rather than follow a partisan line.