Miguel Syjuco Quotes

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.

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.

Elected office holds more perks than Elvis' nightstand.

I don’t know how to do what you have to do to get something out of a congressman.

Washington has political power combined with the insider illusion of being in control.

Money speaks louder than words in Washington.

Territorial Governors -- are nothing but politicians who go out to the outskirts of countries and suffer the privations there in order to build up stakes and come back as United States Senators.

… lobbyist-larded Washington

I've been really at the highest levels of American political life.

It was hardly their own shining abilities alone that allowed a son, two grandsons, and a son-in-law of Winston Churchill to make their way into parliament.

I want to become prime minister.

He's a nice guy who will never change the Senate. He is the Senate. Eighteen years in politics, and he's got two cousins who are senators, too. Mark Udall's dad even ran for president.

I have no political aspiration.

Our dad was just a congressman for 27 years, and if you live in Washington, D.C., everybody's dad works for the government. We grew up just like everyone else.

There was nothing exceptional about growing up as the son of a congressman.

My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics.

Paul Ryan hasn't lacked for a job since he left college as the golden child of Wisconsin Republican politics, riding his family connections into a job with then-Senator Bob Kasten.

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

It's like going into the Senate. You know, the first time you get there, you're all excited, 'My God, how did I ever get here?' Then, about six months later, you say, 'How the hell did the rest of them get here?'

I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.

I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.

If I was into politics, I would be rich.

People like to do politics with me, and they like to do business.