Roy Romer Quotes

I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.

I've always been involved in politics, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I sold Kool-Aid for McGovern - I could always pick a winner.

All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.

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.

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.

I... grew up in politics and I used to work for the Democratic Party.

Politics is in my blood. I'd love to be involved in 2008, maybe even '06.

I lost my first run for office, but I developed a great love for grassroots politics.

The people who run campaigns today have more iron control over the campaign than they did 20 or 30 years ago.

I've been through several of his campaigns, and I can tell you nobody can out-campaign Rick Perry.

Today, campaigning isn't an 'interruption' but a permanent condition. Indeed, if you are a successful campaigner, it's expected you'll be a successful president.

Well, I spent 23 years in politics, and bits of that were fun.

I would love to be a mentor to many people who want to go into the political arena, teach them the art of winning elections.

You have to be an optimist to be in politics.

[Democrats] have got to start winning elections. That involves not some great idea, but it also involves recruiting candidates. And Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, who has given obnoxiousness a new definition in his personal behavior, oftentimes in his dealings with the press, had a very good point.

I ran for president. I ran for governor twice. And I've been the governor now for nearly seven years. I find that the people who are my best advisors are the people who are smart enough to give me really good advice and smart enough to keep their mouths shut about what advice they give me. And so if I want advisors that way, that's the kind of advisor I'm going to be for Donald Trump.

Marriage is no substitute for political experience.

When I met Paul Ryan 22 years ago, he was a student at Miami of Ohio volunteering on my campaign.

I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up.

I don't often get involved with campaigns at all.

I definitely learned about the inner workings of campaigns enough to know that I'm glad that I'm not in politics.

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 never run campaigns based on an ethnic coalition.

I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.