Gabrielle Giffords Quotes

I'm a politician. I run for office. That's my profession.

I hope to continue to be serving South Dakota in Congress.

Conservatives of Western North Carolina should send Mark Meadows to Congress. We need his help.

When you are choosing an MP you need to choose the person who is pretty much likely to be the best representative for your area.

One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank.

When I was introduced to Johnson he was a freshman Congressman.

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

There aren't a whole lot of people out of 300 million who could elected to the Congress.

I'm an elected politician. If you don't agree with me, vote for somebody else.

I would consider running for office. But not for mayor.

I'm thinking of trying to talk Jonathan Toews into running for Congress. We could use him.

I really was going to run for Congress.

When I was 27, having never run for office before, I decided to run for Congress.

I first decided to run for Congress when I was 29 - and became a Representative at the age of 30.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck could run for vice president.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.

I represented the 4th District of South Carolina... from the election '92 until election '98. And then I was out six years and then came back for another six years between the election 2004 and the election 2010.

After thinking carefully about how I can best help my fellow Minnesotans, I have decided to not seek election for a different office in 2014. The warm encouragement from many people to run for U.S. senator or the governorship was deeply humbling.

I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.

I want to win and I want to be in office.

You want to represent the country and you want elected officials that are representative of the country.

When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.

I want to thank the people of Texas for asking me to represent them in Washington.

I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. I'm not sure the numbers are as large because I think the burden of getting elected to public office at the national level has become astronomically expensive.