By the time Clinton graduated from Yale Law School, many people, including her boyfriend Bill, believed she could, and should, embark on a political career. She'd given the Wellesley commencement speech that had earned her a 'Life' write-up of her own.

Rebecca Traister

In their political careers, Obama and Biden faced down lobbyists, Tea Party carpetbaggers, and Washington gridlock.

Andrew Shaffer

When I began my political career, I identified with Malcolm X.

Ayman Odeh

I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives. I raised my children as a single mother when my husband was arrested and held for eight years without a conviction - a hostage to my political career.

Benazir Bhutto

Why, over her political career has Wall Street been a major - the major campaign contributor to Hillary Clinton? You know, maybe they're dumb and they don't know what they're going to get, but I don't think so.

Bernie Sanders

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

Bianca Jagger

Jason McDermott's political career, however bogus, appears to have had an early and promising start.

Bill Dedman

I started my political career facing lynch mobs.

Bob Filner

Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.

Claire McCaskill

If the price of continuing my political career is to be complicit in a really bad thing then that's not a price I'm prepared to pay.

David Gauke

All political careers end in failure, but few did it so quickly as David Cameron's. He came to power promising not to 'bang on about Europe' and ended up having the continent's name chiselled into the lid of his political coffin.

David Hepworth

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that.

David Herbert Donald

My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates.

Dennis Kucinich

The John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics was originally intended to bring scholars and politicians into closer contact, on the assumption that other office-holders can use academics as profitably as Kennedy did during his political career.

Donald E. Graham

Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career.

Elliott Abrams

Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.

Eric Alterman

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

George Bernard Shaw

Reagan gave essentially the same speech from the beginning to the end of his political career, which was always, 'The American people are great, the government always screws things up, let's get the government out of the way.' On the foreign policy side it was, 'Communism is bad, and we're going to defeat it.'

H. W. Brands

Back in the early days of my political career, I was called Socialist Cindy. I just hate the nickname Cindy.

Jacinda Ardern

Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

Jack Layton

If a man aspires for a political career, he can start at 18 and go on and on. This is not true about women, who fall back when marriage and children happen, which are equally important. That is not gender bias.

Jaggi Vasudev