Jeff Duncan Quotes

Politics are now nothing more than the means of rising in the world.

No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.

Politics always fascinated me. In my 20s, I was involved in politics and, as I look in the mirror, not for the noblest of purposes. It was for sport.

There are so many societies, so many churches, so many -isms, that it is almost impossible for an independent man to succeed in a political career.

My belief is the majority of people in politics are just interested in pursuing this career in politics, and doing what's necessary to get themselves re-elected. And if that happens to coincide with the public good, great. But if it doesn't, the public good loses out.

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

There are more non-committee chairmen than there are committee chairmen. And the non-committee chairmen want to be chairmen some day. They will not eliminate term limits on existing committee chairmen.

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.

I definitely envision myself in politics at some point.

I've never believed in running for office so you can eventually run for some other office.

Not everyone who goes to Washington becomes Washington.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

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 grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.

I like lots of career politicians; I'm not against all career politicians.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

If I was into politics, I would be rich.

I have no political ambitions for myself or my children.

But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.

I love what's happened to me, but when I was a kid, I wanted to be the president of the United States.

My political science degree is always on the back-burner. I took my LSAT, so even if I want to take the LSAT again, I know what I'm getting into. I'll keep it on the back-burner. Who knows, maybe with my popularity, I can have a career in politics with a law degree. I think it'll work out either way.

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.

Your first six months in the Senate, you spend a lot of time wondering how the hell you got here. After that, you look around at your colleagues and wonder how the hell any of them got here.

Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics.

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