Orrin Hatch Quotes

I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate.

Elective office and public service are obviously something that have long ties with my family, and something I'm definitely interested in.

It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator - just as I believe he has been a great Attorney General. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.

If you want to be a policy maker, run for office.

I don't see myself in any way in elective office.

I will complete my second term, but I have made no decision as to my plans after Congress except that I will continue in public service, including as a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve.

I'm not going to become an MP and I'm not going to be London Mayor. I have no political ambitions.

I am not joining politics. I don't intend to contest election. I am happy to be back to doing normal things, be it films or other work.

I know I'm not going to be working with the WWE forever. That's why I'm going to be the Mayor of the city of Houston, so I can move on to the next stage of my life.

I never thought I would run for office.

I've never ruled out the possibility of going back into public service.

I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office.

I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

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.

I have no intention of running for office again.

I will not seek reelection the United States Senate but will retire from public service in January 2013. There is no reason other than the fact than I think it's time.

I don't want to become Washington.

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.

As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I like very much being in elected office and there is no consideration about doing anything different until I can be assured that we are going to have the best voting systems in the country.

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.

Those who believe that after I have left the government as prime minister, I will go into a permanent retirement, really should have their heads examined.

I thought I'd grow up to be a teacher, or maybe run for political office.

I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me.

I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to transition in, so that's a decade of my life where I pursued my own ambitions and I thought it was time to rearrange my life to focus on other things.

Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.