John Catsimatidis Quotes

The traditional path to making a name for yourself in our family is running for elective office, and I couldn't do that because, for one thing, all the really good offices were taken.

I had the fixation that comes with being a Kennedy to be a great man on the big stage.

There is nobody that's ever going to fill Ted Kennedy's shoes, and that's a tall order for somebody in the family to try to live up to.

Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.'

I was the first Blunt ever elected to anything.

Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley.

Life itself has so much politics, why should I make it my profession? I'm just a politician's son, not a politician myself. Two politicians, that's my dad and elder brother, in the family are enough. I'm happy doing my own stuff in Bollywood.

Look, I am in the establishment because my dad, the greatest man alive was president of the United States and my brother, who I adore as well as fantastic brother was president. Fine, I'll take it. I guess I'm part of the establishment Barbara Bush is my mom. I'll take that, too.

I have no political ambitions for myself or my children.

When my father ran for the state Assembly, the headline said, 'Kean's Son to Run for Assembly.' When my grandfather first ran for Congress, it was 'Kean's son to run for Congress.'

My family has always said... if you're going to get into politics, do it for the right reasons, not because you've got to carry on something.

I am proud to be the son of YSR, who had left me a very big family.

I was never in politics before I contested the Lok Sabha by-elections after my father's death.

Just as I went into politics because Joe died, if anything happened to me tomorrow, my brother Bobby would run for my seat in the Senate. And if Bobby died, Teddy would take over for him.

Meanwhile, the Bush dynasty comes to an official end.

Fish have got to swim. Birds have got to fly, and Clintons have to run for office. It's what they do. It's a metabolic urge. That's all they've done their entire life is borrow money from rich people to seek public office.

The Kennedys formed a Kennedy party.

The Kennedys are our royals.

I decided that I was going to be the Kennedy who makes her own name and finds her own job and works like a dog. My comeuppance was when Arnold got elected - I became the Kennedy who was married to the governor.

All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.

It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator - just as I believe he has been a great Attorney General. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.

In Pakistan politics is hereditary.

My real name is Joe Kennedy, but if you live in Massachusetts, you can't sign 'Joe Kennedy.' So, back in 1957, I stuck the X on my name to be different from those people in Hyannis Port.

I have given myself one objective, to be the long-awaited successor to Francois Mitterrand.

I gave myself an objective, to be the second president from Correze and finally to be the successor to Francois Mitterrand.