Sentences with phrase «to become a politician»

He left his profession and became a politician in order to bring quality to governance.

«I think you all know that [US] president [Barack] Obama spent some time as a community organiser before becoming a politician,» he told delegates.

Stripping out lawyers, who have a disproportionately nasty habit of becoming politicians, the three most tax - dodging professions account for about half the votes among Greek MPs.

Has Falwell become the politician and Reagan the eschatologist?

In other words, Jehu becomes a politician like all the rest, using all the weapons of politics.

Decent people don't become politicians.

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Though he never became a politician, he did later go to the John Marshall Law School at night — a move he said was prompted by fears that President Bill Clinton's health - care reform efforts would put home births out of business.

Ironically, given her disillusionment, Casey's Albion character Christine eventually becomes a politician herself, branching off from the EPA and standing for office.

Many Ghanaians have raised concerns over his appointment, asking whether the outspoken man of God has now become a politician.

Who becomes our politicians, lobbyists or journalists is still determined more by privilege than merit, and too many are too eager to pull up the educational drawbridge behind them.

When judges become politicians, members of the public may rightly wonder if they were not simply «politicians in robes» while they were on the bench.

In First Class I play Hank younger before becoming a politician, when he is a scientist and still learning about himself and his abilities.

«Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.»

More waffle to string us along he should become a politician when he fineally leaves the club

The Guardian says Yousafzai plans to return to Pakistan after graduation to become a politician, or to continue her education in the United States.

The premise seems to be that pastors must become politicians to influence the nation's direction, and that in turn suggests that the power of civil institutions is the greater than all others.

Got bored again, became a politician and a warrior.

Asked if she ever thought her father would become a politician, Barbara, 34, the eldest child, says, «No, not really.

Had it not been for Bunning's inability to play politics in baseball, he might never have become a politician.

Marquez is still playing for Verona in Italy, while Blanco will shortly retire and become a politician.

The majority of Social Democrats, forswearing their libertarian past and becoming politicians, succeeded in excluding the revolutionary and Anarchist delegates.

Had such shortlists been in place when Winston Churchill first sought to become a politician, the course of European history after 1939 would arguably have turned out very differently.

For the political novice who is tempted to become a politician, Shane Greer's So You Want to be a Politician is an accessible, practical guide to the external basics, such as personal presentation, how to dress and how to present yourself on TV and radio, as well as fundraising and political activity.

If you want to be rich in Ghana, you need to become a politician.

It is becoming a politician's and a political thing and it is time to stop all that,» he said on The Big Issue on Saturday.

«A key objective of the project is to support members of these communities to become politicians themselves.

And if an activist doesn't like that, then have to stop being an activist and become a politician themselves.

General Sir Richard Dannatt's decision to accept a job and peerage with a future Conservative government was not mentioned, although one MP asked Mr Brown: «Is it more dangerous for politicians to become generals, or for generals to become politicians.»

The trio were asked about what pay cut they took on becoming a politician and what effect it has had on their family life.

They become politicians to seek power in order to apply policies in relation to the economy, public services and other areas that touch voters» lives.

«Probably I should apply the David Cameron answer,» he says — namely that what he did before he became a politician should remain private.

Before he became a politician, Aoshima was a professional comedian, but this was not a joke.

Synopsis: Rudy Russo (Kurt Russell) is an unscrupulous car salesman who aspires to become a politician.

Thankfully, Oldman disappears into the role, becoming the politician we remember from newsreels.

It strikes me then that one day this student could become a politician, a lawyer, or anything he wants — once he learns his new language, he'll have the words to describe his own history, and a better chance to plot the course of his own future.

Growing up, Chelsey Tubbs thought she'd become a politician.

You want politics, become a politician.

The plants carry a certain symbolism: chrysanthemums are the official flower of Chicago, where Obama went to law school and became a politician; jasmine refers to Hawaii, where he spent much of his childhood; and African blue lilies allude to his father, who was Kenyan.

I can think of quite a few journalists who switched careers to become politicians or activists because they wanted to have a more direct influence, to do more than just observe and report.

She asked if he intended to become a politician to implement the idea.

So why is it that as a lawyer, I have to deal with everyone with courtesy and good faith, but the moment I become a politician, I can lie, misquote, malign, fabricate, and act in a way that would get me disbarred if I were acting just as a lawyer?

It has kept me from getting into the military and given me a little lisp, that I could transform into a personal trademark if I were to become a politician.

I think that I should run as an independent candidate in the next Ontario Provincial election in my Peterborough riding (likely next spring) and become a politician.