Raj Thackeray Quotes

I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.

I want to become prime minister.

I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.

I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work! I don't really have the personality for that.

I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made president.

You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place.

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without 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.

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.

There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.

Whenever people say, 'You should be president,' I say, 'I thought you liked me.' Listen, I thought being mayor of Stamford was a wonderful job. Being governor of a state for a period of time is a wonderful job, and I'm not sure I'm at all attracted to Washington.

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

Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.

I didn't get to the Senate by accident.

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

You don’t become a statesman unless you are first a good politician.

Men in political life must be ambitious.

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.

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

More than Nixon or any other 20th-century president, Clinton has devoted his life to winning and keeping the presidency.

Running a government as chief minister and managing affairs of the nation are different things.

My childhood dream was to be prime minister.

I had dreams of high political office.