John Edwards Quotes

One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.

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

If you lose, you can't lead. If you don't lead, you're irrelevant. Winning is what it's all about in politics.

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

I had dreams of high political office.

Nobody has a cakewalk to become governor.

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.

Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.

I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work! I don't really have the personality for that.

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

It's interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.

Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

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

You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

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

Ralph Reed is deeply ambitious and always was so. There was a time when he... in one of my interviews, he said he pondered running the Ross Perot campaign, and he wasn't sure he wanted to do the Christian Right thing; he was worried that it boxed him into a corner.

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

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

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

Anyone who gets to the top in politics is a control freak.

Men in political life must be ambitious.

To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.

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 most honorable adventure.

A man’s got to walk if he is going to be in politics.