Dalton McGuinty Quotes

Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.

When you enter the realm of politics, you don't enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song.

I am joining politics for sure.

I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office.

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

Of course I have had thoughts about going into politics.

As it became clear that Senator Rubio was likely to run for president, I received encouragement to consider running for the Senate.

I am not a professional politician.

I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing.

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.

I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition.

I thought I could make a difference, so I ran for office.

Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh and Rahul Gandhi are our star campaigners. Our party will fight under their leadership.

If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.

I would love to be able to serve in office in some capacity with Romney as president.

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.

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

I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.

I loved my time in Congress, but people who spend all of their time planning to run for office have very few useful skills to deploy when they finally get there.

My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.

I... grew up in politics and I used to work for the Democratic Party.

From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing.

You can make a successful run for political office without an especially thick resume, any exceptional talent for expressing yourself, a noteworthy education or for that matter a basic grasp of science.

He [Donald Trump] loves it. He thrives in it, and he is learning it every day.

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