David Koechner Quotes

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

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.

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

I hadn't really thought about politics as a career in my twenties or early thirties.

I definitely envision myself in politics at some point.

I am joining politics for sure.

I wanted to be a senator from Illinois. I was obsessed with politics. My dad was friends with a lot of local politicians, so I would hang out with them on Election Day and hand out buttons. Somehow, even though they were opposite, I loved Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. I thought they were the coolest guys!

I don't have to be in politics.

I'm only sort of a politician.

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

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

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

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'm not a policy wonk, and I don't dream of being a political operative.

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.

Lunched with Jack Kennedy, the new Senator from Massachusetts. He has the making of a first-class Senator or a first-class fascist.

I don't want to be known as a politician.

I like to be involved in politics. I like to be involved in government. I've been in politics all my life. I would like to remain in government. I don't think that's so sinister.

I'll be honest: I haven't ruled politics out.

Of course I have had thoughts about going into politics.

Florida A&M University was my first real introduction to politics as a heavyweight game.

I could really see myself in politics. Who knows?

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.

Politics was put in front of me. I do politics because it's the vehicle for change and because I happen to be good at it... I had this sort of calm fearlessness, that some would call foolishness.