Quotes About Identity

I am definitely not a politician.

Perhaps it's time to stop analyzing Sarah Palin as a politician. Maybe, in her own muddled way, she is at last owning up to the fact that she has been miscast. You don't need politics anymore once you've discovered that the alchemy of celebrity has turned you into a 24-carat phenomenon.

I'm a business guy. I'm not a politician.

I do not purport to be a professional politician.

Look, I like my music, and I don't have a conventional background for a politician, but I'm pretty conventional in many senses.

I'm a musician... not a politician.

Anyone who knows anything about me should know by now I am certainly not exactly a good politician. I am also willing to admit to you now that I never went to any classes that had anything to do political science.

I'm not a politician, only a singer.

I am not a consensus politician... This is something that is really very un-Dutch.

I'm not a politician. I'm not a career politician.

As a black member of parliament and minister for nearly a decade, I was determined not to be defined by my race. I didn't want to be 'the black politician', when being black is just a part of who I am.

I've gone from, you know, being too close to politicians, to being too close to entertainers, and people's father that I'm not.

There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout.

I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they're misrepresented through their politicians.

I don't really try to get involved politically by giving money to politicians or by saying I'm a Democrat or Republican. Right now, I just view myself as an American.

I'm not better than other politicians, but I'm different because I got into the game much later in life, after I had raised a family, after I had written a book, after I had been a successful lawyer. It's different when you get into this business after you've led a full life. I don't want to be a big man. I know who I am.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen.

'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

When you are born gay, you are born into a rich culture of politics, music, and art, but you are also a minority in your own home.

Partly, identity politics is a result of economic failure.

Many Americans remain very interested in royal goings-on in general, and not just because of their soap-opera appeal. To a greater degree than any other polity, Britain functions as Americans' defining 'other.'

Like nearly every other electoral subgroup in U.S. polling, 'Asian' is a label that masks the diversity among its peoples-perhaps even more than 'Hispanic' belies the significant variances between the cultures designated as such.