Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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

I would regard it as a great misfortune to run for Mayor and still more to be elected.

The only problem with running for office is, once you are elected you have to serve.

Running for Congress isn't something I ever thought I would do.

I didn't want to be a senator, but I considered it anyway.

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

I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate.

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.

As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I like very much being in elected office and there is no consideration about doing anything different until I can be assured that we are going to have the best voting systems in the country.

I will not ever run for political office. I can assure you.

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

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.

I was in the Minnesota state Senate from 2000 until 2006. In 2006, I was urged to run for Congress, I did. And I've been here ever since.

I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.

I've been complimented enough and asked to run for various offices out here in Utah, but right now, I'm not interested. I don't know that I have the stomach for it.

I am not a politician and I have no intention of being one.

If you want to be a policy maker, run for office.

In the heart of every legislator lurks a judicial candidate waiting his or her turn for election.

[Warren] Harding didn't like being a Senator; he liked being in the Senate.

No one has ever seen a congressman who left office because he didn't get paid enough. On the contrary, many of them spend millions of dollars to get there.... Congressmen do not make good hardship cases.

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

You don’t make any money in the White House—that’s for darn sure—but you can get things done….The most rewarding experience I have ever had was my three years in the White House.

When I was a young man, I used to dream maybe someday I could be an alderman. Instead of that I became an attorney general, a senator, a vice president, a Democratic nominee.

The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.