Political Newcomer Quotes

The AAP was not the first group of well-meaning outsiders in politics.

It's gotta be hard when you are a newcomer to this kind of thing, this big political scene and you have somebody like Michael Bloomberg come in with hundreds of millions of dollars, dumping it in.

Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before.

There is always a testing of the new kid on the block in politics.

I am not a career politician, even though this is my 12th year in the United States House of Representatives.

It can be really lonely running for office, especially if you've never done it before and especially when all the normal channels of power are basically closed to you.

When I was elected for the first time in '06 I'd never been elected to any body. City councils, school board, community college boards, trustee, water district trustee, class president, ASB president, senior class president - nothing. I was never elected to anything in my life.

My biggest strength is I'm not a career politician.

I still have that new senator smell.