Jennifer Granholm Quotes

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

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

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

Mo Udall didn't want the presidency bad enough. He was too sane. He was a marvelous guy, but you had the feeling there was another Udall outside his body watching the candidate Udall who was too extravagant, telling him to cut it out.

Politics, as an end in itself, is a poor business to be in.

Extremism in the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice.

If you do get into the Senate, don't get the Presidential mania. It makes mad every man who is at all prominent at Washington either in the House or Senate. Scores of men, usually sound and sensible, fancy they can be President, who has no more right to think so than the autocrat of Russia. I have no knowledge of any tolerably conspicuous politician at Washington whose career is not colored and marred by his ambition to be President. I say this in all seriousness. It makes fools of all sorts from [Daniel] Webster and Lewis Campbell.

If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run for office.

There is an assumption that everything the President—the White House does is for political electoral purposes.

Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don’t go far in politics.

It's in the nature of the Presidency that most of the people youy meet want something.

Honestly, the egos and the quest and thirst for power is very prevalent in Washington.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

You think Trump cares if you leave? He wants power, not prosperity.

I truly believe that I can be president of the US if I really want to.

People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.

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

No one reaches the Oval Office without a great deal of admiration for the institution - and himself - so it's unsurprising that sitting presidents favor the biographies of former presidents.

People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so if anyone tells you that they don't like the sound of the applause and the ego gratification, I don't think they're being straight with you.

I think that the presidency really brings out the best in a lot of people.

I want to win and I want to be in office.

People who know Paul Ryan say, 'He will be president one day.'

All the best reasons for going into politics never really change: the desire for glory and fame and the chance to do something that really matters, that will make life better for a lot of people.