George McGovern Quotes

I don't think I would be a good politician. I kid about it when I get a standing ovation. Sometimes I'll say, "I may run for Governor," but it's strictly a joke.

I'm not particularly interested in running for president.

No, I'm not running for office someday.

If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.

There is absolutely no way that I would enter that world. I would never run for office.

I didn't get to the Senate by accident.

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

Nobody has a cakewalk to become governor.

Everybody's saying I should run for president.

I would never run for president.

Many people wants to be the president...they have ambition. Just ambition is not enough.

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

You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.

I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.

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

I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.

Whenever people say, 'You should be president,' I say, 'I thought you liked me.' Listen, I thought being mayor of Stamford was a wonderful job. Being governor of a state for a period of time is a wonderful job, and I'm not sure I'm at all attracted to Washington.

No doubt it was better to have become president than not.

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

I thought I would be governor of Massachusetts. I stood on a pile of my old albums and said, 'I'm the only one with a record to stand on.'

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Yes! I have climbed to the top of that greasy pole.

You are the only man in history to every use the Presidency as a stepping stone to greatness.

Every senator I know would like to be President. The question is do they want to run to be President.

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.