Paul Johnson Quotes

Do I want to be premier? Yes, I do.

I have no political aspiration.

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

One day, when I have advertising out of my system, I want to be Prime Minister of Australia.

I never had a dream of becoming anything, someone really high or a politician.

Now you may do it badly, you may do it well, some people like you, some people hate you, all the rest of it - but you have got a real motivating life purpose. [on being Prime Minister

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

When I was 14, I told all the girls in my class that I wanted to be the first woman prime minister. Someone else beat me to that!

Political ambition, like other kinds of ambition, is a basic human appetite …. Like other human appetites, ambition is not evenly distributed among the population, but enough people with substantial political ambition are naturally drawn to political careers to make the problem of controlling it a major aspect of constitutional government.

Men in political life must be ambitious.

If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run for office.

I want to be prime minister.

So far, I have not come to any of the positions that I have filled through wanting to be there. I was sought - people wanted me to come to those posts. I am talking about all my positions: mayor of Istanbul, chairman of the party, prime minister.

I can't deny that the thought of being governor, the thought of being president, is alluring. And beyond that, it would be an opportunity to make a real impact on people's lives on a global scale. But there are a lot of other things I want to do first.

I'd rather rule the world now than be prime minister.

Before I went to work for 'Playboy,' I planned to apply to Yale to get a public policy master's. I felt drawn to go into politics. Even before that, my dream was to wind up either in the Senate or on the Supreme Court. I had big dreams as a little girl.

Many people wants to be the president...they have ambition. Just ambition is not enough.

My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I was 9-years-old that's what I told people I was going to be. The mayor of the city of Detroit.

I want to be a major force.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.

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

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