Michael Kelly Quotes

We all have a past; it's just that my past is out there for all to see.

Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.

I hope that as the Senate and American people learn more about me, they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.

If I want to run for president, you'll be able to tell.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

There are 50 new tabloids every year, and I'm in them, and I read them, and I do stupid things.

My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.

Looking back, I guess I've lived an unusual life.

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.

It's a very tough thing to run for office, but it's also the way the American people get to know you.

…it was far better to be known as an ex-secretary than an ex-defeated candidate for governor.

When I talk to young people about entering government, I tell them, “Now think of the worst thing you’ve ever done in your life. Don’t tell me what it is. Now think about having it on the 10 o’clock news.”

I do not believe I have the mental attitude or the politician's manner ... I am too sensitive to political mud.

One of the advantages of no longer running for public office is that I don’t have to pretend to be nice to people I dislike.

I don't want to be known as a politician.

I wasn't scandalous - I didn't want to be.

When I was young, I was the sweetheart of the press. They loved me but were kind of waiting for me to mess up. I had no skeletons in my closet, no major past to talk about.

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 can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.

Human creatures, living in the circle of their intimates and friends, are too apt to remain in ignorance of the comments and instructions which may be made of what they say and do in the world at large. I entertain a great horror of this ignorance.

No one in my family had ever been in politics. My dad thought it was something that got in the way.

A lot of people don't know this about me but actually I started in politics.

I didn't get into politics to play a character on TV.

If ever there were a candidate destined to shine on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' Sarah Palin would be that woman.

I have never, ever read anything written about me.