A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes

I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.

The office of Vice President is a greater dream than I ever expected.

I have been president of the Indian Kabbadi Association, and likewise, I have been associated with various other sports as well.

I was elevated as the State President and now I have been elevated as the Governor of the state.

Do I want to be premier? Yes, I do.

Don't get me wrong: I would love to be president.

I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity.

I have zero interest in being vice president.

I don't ever want to be president - let's just get that out of the way.

I want to be president of Barcelona - that's my dream.

I want to become prime minister.

I'd love the job of Chancellor one day.

I asked that I not be considered for vice president of the United States.

It hasn't yet materialized that I went into sports management, but I haven't ruled it out yet, either. I only half-jokingly remarked that I'd love to be the commissioner of the NFL. But as I recently told current Commissioner Roger Goodell, that job looked a lot more appealing when I was struggling with the Russians and the Iranians everyday.

Once that was over, I knew that my ties to a football organization would be over because I never wanted to coach or be in the front office.

I'm not looking to be anyone's vice president. I looking to be the president of the United States. Or, I'll be a private citizen, there's nothing wrong with being a private citizen.

I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody.

I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.

Of course I want to be [prime minister].

The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.

It’s hard to say. I don’t want to limit myself by saying one thing or another. I couldn’t have imagined the path that these past five years have taken me, so I guess I’ll just give a safe answer and say that I hope to be elected as the president of the United States in 2016.

I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.

Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator.

My presidency is not over. I've got another five years coming up.

I've written a book that hopefully will give people a sense of what [presidency] was like. I hope my friends read it and say, "Now I understand." I hope my detractors read it and say, "Well, I better understand."