Allen West Quotes

My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.

I never envisioned retiring out of the Congress.

I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office.

School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

I represented the 4th District of South Carolina... from the election '92 until election '98. And then I was out six years and then came back for another six years between the election 2004 and the election 2010.

I will leave the U.S. Congress when the term for which I was elected expires in January 2011 and return to the practice of law with a sense of duty fulfilled.

I want to be Eric Cantor's term limit.

I would be lying if I told you that I hadn't had aspirations to run for a statewide office.

I fundamentally believe in term limits, for Congress, presidents, and board members.

I happened to have the privilege of serving in Congress. It will be 16 years at the end of this term. And I think I made a difference here on important issues.

I hope to continue to be serving South Dakota in Congress.

Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.

Before being elected to Congress, I oversaw the Cook County Hospital System as a Cook County Commissioner for 10 years.

Being a backbench MP is a bit of an anti-climax for a superhero.

I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.

Though I'm a congresswoman by title, a politician I've never been.

For someone like me who, as a kid, walked to school muttering little political speeches to myself, it was irresistible to finally get a chance at political life for real. When the people of Etobicoke-Lakeshore elected me their MP, it changed me forever.

Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.

Being a member of Congress is a hard job but it's an uplifting job.

Congress is the great commanding theater of this nation, and the threshold to whatever department of office a man is qualified to enter.

I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election

I am an optimist. How else could I have stayed in the Congress for nine terms?

I'm thinking of trying to talk Jonathan Toews into running for Congress. We could use him.

Everyone knows that a federal job is a lifetime job, and for many in Congress, it seems they have a lifetime job, too.