Political Rise Quotes

I met Donald Trump in 2003 on a reality show. Could you ever imagine then that we would end up in the White House together?

I became a prime minister within four-and-a-half years, the shortest kind of career ever in Israeli political history.

The critics of Donald Trump are looking for people to blame for his rise. There are many people who are either surprised by his strength or don't like him and want to blame someone to explain why he has been this popular.

Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors.

...the unprecedented rise of the Christian Social Party... was to assume the deepest significance for me as a classical object of study.

I was a booth worker of the BJP. I rose to become the party president.

Politicians only get to the top because they have no qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

The rise of Donald Trump is explained not so much by the hatred of Muslims, but rather the hatred of just one Muslim. The one who is not a Muslim.

Trump was a Fox News viewer before he was a Fox News star. He learned a lot about the Republican party's base by watching the network and calling into the morning show 'Fox & Friends' while still starring on NBC's 'Celebrity Apprentice.'

One thing I'll say about Hitler that many people don't realize - and I don't mean to besmirch the industry - but he did get his start, not only as an artist, but as an advertising man writing art for advertisements.

As Margaret Thatcher came up in the world, so the Conservative Party came down.

Richard Nixon is very much a self-made man in the six years prior to his emergence as a national figure. Between the moment he's elected to Congress in 1946 and the moment he's inaugurated as Vice President in 1953, he conducts nothing less than a kind of prodigy of American political self-advancement.

As Ronald Reagan demonstrated, it is still possible to progress if not from a log cabin at least from obscurity to the White House. It is also rare.

In a media instant, Sarah Palin went from an unknown moose hunter to a mass phenomenon on the precipice of becoming the vice president of the United States.

Bill de Blasio, for his part, became the mayor of New York, surely the most powerful local political position in the nation, and arguably - after Giuliani and Bloomberg - one with a national base, one with, practically speaking, no job at all. He went from marginal political flotsam and jetsam to extraordinary centrality within a few months time.

I see particular commonalities in the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.

I never intended to become an opposition political leader. Perhaps the government wants to raise me up into one.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I'd be the chief minister.

In politics if the people give you popularity, the other politicians observe and give you power.

It seems the more shallow and mean the candidates are the more they rise in the polls.

It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.

They [Democrats] are not just going up, they are accelerating on their way up.