Amitabh Bachchan Quotes

I'm not cut out for politics.

Politics hasn't changed, but I've changed.

Men are strange about politics. I have been around the world twice and I know politicians from many cultures. They are all alike. As long as they find themselves in the middle of it, they say they are sorry that all their time is taken up by politics. But as soon as they have lost and are out - oh, how terrible for them!

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 the most honorable adventure.

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever.

I don't see myself in the political realm.

I - you know, I loved politics more as a younger man.

I honestly have no interest in politics; I don't think I could ever get into politics.

I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.

As I climbed the electoral ladder - from state assemblyman to mayor of Woodbridge and finally to governor of New Jersey - political compromises came easy to me because I'd learned how to keep a part of myself innocent of them.

I'm an unambitious politician.

When I launched my first campaign in 1999, I knew that the arc of my public service would have many chapters.

I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

I think a lot of people start out full of idealism and fresh ideas. And then a lot of times, being re-elected becomes more important than staying true to your principles.

There is absolutely no way that I would enter that world. I would never run for office.

Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.

I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.

Most people wouldn't want to marry a politician.

I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics.

The idea of politics is just so uninteresting to me - I've never paid much attention to it. I don't believe things can really change. It doesn't matter who's president. Nothing really gets resolved. I don't know. I guess that's not the right attitude to take.

Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one.

I came to Congress hoping to change the world; I now hope to be able to leave with my dignity.

I say this in the utmost affection ... he has passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.