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I've always viewed politics the following way: if you do a good job at the job you're doing, you'll have opportunities to do other things in the future. Maybe things you never envisioned.

— Marco Rubio

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'm not sure I had a political career for the future anyway. I'm not sure that politics was what I wanted to spend my life doing.

— John Edwards

There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.

— Al Gore

I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

— J. C. Watts

I felt that politics was one place where I could possibly have a career in arguing, debating, and getting to write papers. I almost considered working in law enforcement or something like that, but that didn't really last long.

— Jovan Adepo

I have got instincts that, I think, are very much in tune with people's very keen sense to see something different. I did not dream of being in politics since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I was not involved in student politics, or not in that partisan way.

— Nick Clegg

Politics means competition, especially in senior positions. If you don't know that, you're not especially suited to politics.

— Wolfgang Schauble

✗Opposing Perspectives

I have never taken a job or done a job where I felt I needed to leave my conscience at the door. One of the the great things about not being in politics as a career is that I can do this job without thinking about my career. I can think about what we're trying to do, what we're trying to accomplish and what we're trying to leave.

— Deval Patrick

I knew early on that I would do politics, but I would never make a living at it. I would do something else.

— Jerry Springer

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

— Winston Churchill

I'm not into politics. I have received offers to enter politics, but I have not been tempted so far. I can't say about the future.

— Mithun Chakraborty