Aja Brown Quotes

I'm not sure I had a political career for the future anyway. I'm not sure that politics was what I wanted to spend my life doing.

I'm not into politics. I have received offers to enter politics, but I have not been tempted so far. I can't say about the future.

I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically.

I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.

I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.

I like to be involved in politics. I like to be involved in government. I've been in politics all my life. I would like to remain in government. I don't think that's so sinister.

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

I'd never rule anything out, to be honest with you, whether it be the small of volunteer status for a community organization or national politics, who knows?

I never considered politics as an option, not ever.

School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.

I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.

My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

If I want to continue to build the kind of effort we have with Do Something, being in a public office would help. I wouldn't rule it out, but it's not something I feel determined to do.

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

I never got into politics for it to be a career.

Politics is in my blood. I'd love to be involved in 2008, maybe even '06.

Political involvement is more than a game.

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics, is still the greatest and most honorable adventure.

I ran for Congress in 1992, but I lost the election, and I really dropped the idea of ever serving in Congress. Eventually, I went home and became the mayor of my city, West Palm Beach. I was mayor for eight years.

Once you've been a mayor, you look to try to get things done.

I didn't go into politics because I'm a woman. I have done this because I have been interested in politics my whole life.

I have no regrets in going into politics or leaving the Tollywood for a while.

President Obama is an inspiration of mine, and interning with his administration in the White House opened my eyes to the possibilities of making change at the local level.

For future politics, I don't know what it holds, but if there's a possibility that the people want me to do another political office, again, maybe I'll do it.