David Cone Quotes

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.

But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive.

I never talk about my private life. When you're in this business it becomes so precious. I don't understand when people open up about themselves to the press.

I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.

Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to become President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

In public life as in private life, a man of the very highest repute will occasionally go wrong..

When you get into this line of work, you're in public office, you expect you're gonna have cheap shots taken at you. That's part of the process.

I don't like to be talked about, especially by somebody that doesn't know me.

I'm not going to become an MP and I'm not going to be London Mayor. I have no political ambitions.

I have absolutely no political ambitions.

My husband is not running for the presidency, neither are my children, neither is our business, neither are our foster children.

I'm not looking to be anyone's vice president. I looking to be the president of the United States. Or, I'll be a private citizen, there's nothing wrong with being a private citizen.

Anybody who runs for public office today has got to know his life or her life will be an open book. I've decided that if you want to run for public office you have to decide at the age of 5 and live accordingly.

A lot of people have been asking whether I would ever go into politics. I'm not sure I would.

After I had known [Barack Obama] for a while, I remember saying to my partner, "You know, this guy is really ambitious, I think he wants to be Mayor of Chicago." That was the limit of my imagination.

[Garry] Kasparov and [Anatoly] Karpov have something in common. They both want to become deputies of the Russian State Duma.

I feel like I could run for President. People often laugh, but if I set my mind to it, within the next 15 years I could be in the White House.

I want to be Prime Minister, but I will stand for Mayor of London first.

It's the most important decision I've had to make since 1978 when I decided to get abikini wax. [On his running for California Governor]

I have absolutely no interest in running for president again.

I'm not running, I'm not planning on running, and I've got nothing new on that story.

I really - as I said, I wanted to be President of the United States. It didn't turn out that way.

George Clooney says he's had sex with too many women to ever run for office. He was immediately made Prime Minister of Italy.

The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.