A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People like passion in politics.
My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection, since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious.
Politics means competition, especially in senior positions. If you don't know that, you're not especially suited to politics.
The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.
Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.
If I went into politics, it's because I grew up in a political atmosphere.
Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.
Politics means facing up to hard choices and facing down prejudice, short-termism, the easy, tempting court of knee-jerk public reaction.
A life in politics is for people who know themselves and know where their own line is between loyalty and honesty.