Joseph P. Kennedy III Quotes

Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.

I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will.

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.

There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all.

I would be lying if I told you that I hadn't had aspirations to run for a statewide office.

Politics is not an obsession with me. It's something I'm doing now. I want to do good things, but if it doesn't work out for me, I'll go on to something else.

I had dreams of high political office.

Washington was a swamp. It was not somewhere that they believed people would want to go, so the idea was that people got involved as a public service, not to make a career out of it.

I have absolutely no political ambitions.

I'm a man with a great political future behind me.

The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.

Ivanka Trump should probably run for office one day.

When a guy gets elected to the Senate or the governor's mansion, he wakes up the next morning and says to himself, 'You're presidential material,'

Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.

There are actually no political aspirations. I think you need to have the right attitude and aptitude for it. I don't think I have the right aptitude for it. I think it is unfair to push somebody in that direction just because my father happens to be a politician.

My belief is the majority of people in politics are just interested in pursuing this career in politics, and doing what's necessary to get themselves re-elected. And if that happens to coincide with the public good, great. But if it doesn't, the public good loses out.

Ralph Reed is deeply ambitious and always was so. There was a time when he... in one of my interviews, he said he pondered running the Ross Perot campaign, and he wasn't sure he wanted to do the Christian Right thing; he was worried that it boxed him into a corner.

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

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.

…it was far better to be known as an ex-secretary than an ex-defeated candidate for governor.

Lyndon, please tell me as soon as you can what the deal is … I am afraid its politics. I would hate for you to go into politics.

There are more non-committee chairmen than there are committee chairmen. And the non-committee chairmen want to be chairmen some day. They will not eliminate term limits on existing committee chairmen.

Men in political life must be ambitious.

It was flattering to have high expectations, but I was never going to be President.

I have run across characters in my political career that have that singular focus of being someone, being in a position of power.