Nicolas Sarkozy Quotes

I have no intention of running for office again.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

It was a bit of a surprise when I became a Tory MP. My friends said it was a stupid idea.

One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliament.

I'm not going to run for Senate and I'm not going to run for Governor. I'd like to put those rumors to rest.

After a great deal of thought and discussions with my family, I have decided not to seek re-election in 2014. Politics shouldn't be a career, and I never intended to make it one.

I don't want to go back into politics - absolutely not.

Public men rarely keep their promises to retire from public life.

I am not going to participate in professional politics again.

Rajeev Gandhi was prime minister. We've had a long family relationship with them. He asked me to fight an election, and I went ahead and did it. But I was not qualified as a politician, and I am not going back there again.

I am not joining politics. I don't intend to contest election. I am happy to be back to doing normal things, be it films or other work.

I will never join politics under any circumstances.

I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.

If I think of all the family members, I was probably the only one who was excited with the possibility of my dad's entering public office.

I've never ruled out the possibility of going back into public service.

I haven't ruled out another run for office at some point.

I first decided to run for Congress when I was 29 - and became a Representative at the age of 30.

If enough Americans determine I could do a better job in public office, and Mrs. Nugent and my beloved family agree, there is no limit what I am willing to do for my country.

A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.

Give me about 10 years, I'm going to run for President. If I can squeeze in an NBA championship before that, I'll do it.

After I had known [Barack Obama] for a while, I remember saying to my partner, "You know, this guy is really ambitious, I think he wants to be Mayor of Chicago." That was the limit of my imagination.

[Garry] Kasparov and [Anatoly] Karpov have something in common. They both want to become deputies of the Russian State Duma.

I feel like I could run for President. People often laugh, but if I set my mind to it, within the next 15 years I could be in the White House.

I want to be Prime Minister, but I will stand for Mayor of London first.

It's the most important decision I've had to make since 1978 when I decided to get abikini wax. [On his running for California Governor]