Jo Swinson Quotes

There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all.

I had dreams of high political office.

My gut tells me and continues to tell me that the Conservative party is on a road back to government.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

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

My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.

I'd always admired the intellectuals who had made the transition into politics - Mario Vargas Llosa in Peru, Vaclav Havel in the Czech Republic, Carlos Fuentes in Mexico - but I knew that many of them had failed, and in any event, I wasn't exactly in their league.

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.

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.

Well, the mad Roosevelt has a new achievement to his credit. He succeeded in defeating the party that furnished him a job for nearly all of his manhood days after leaving the ranch, and showed his gratitude for the presidency, at that party's hands. The eminent fakir can now turn to raising hell, his specialty, along other lines.

It doesn’t matter, this young man will never go far in politics.

Men in political life must be ambitious.

It was flattering to have high expectations, but I was never going to be President.

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

Whoever wants Yesh Atid in the government has to vote for us - there's no other choice.

There are very good people in the Labour Party who I would like to see in leadership.

I'm not giving up politics entirely - I'm just giving up leadership of a political party.

You have to listen to people that have chosen the nominee of our Republican Party. I think it would be foolish to ignore them.

Tony Hadley is a big Conservative. He is desperate to become a Lord. He's jealous of me.

Nobody has a cakewalk to become governor.

Politics is ultimately not that complicated a profession; it's where the mediocre distinguish themselves.

I'm a man with a great political future behind me.

Let me tell you this: if Marco Rubio - even though he's only been in the Senate for a very short period of time, that man has a huge, huge opportunity in this country, and I think he could be the president.

I think most Republicans would rather win this election than have transformation.

In the 1950s and '60s the [democrat] party included many obviously earnest and thoughtful liberals who supported goals that were in line with and expressions of serious beliefs. They believed that America was an exceptional country.