Dan Maffei Quotes

There's nothing in my background that would have said I was destined to be a senior politician.

There was nothing in my childhood that said, 'She's going to be first minister of the country one day.'

I never dreamed I'd be in Congress, or even in the NFL, for that matter. Well, I guess I dreamed about being in the NFL, but I didn't believe it would happen. I'm not the biggest guy. But I guess that's the story of my life.

When people ask me why I'm amazed at what Barack Obama has accomplished, I tell them it's not because of what most of America and the world sees and knows of his history. It's because I witnessed what I can only describe as a bizarre turn of events that thrust him into position to even become a U.S. senator.

If someone had told me in 1963 that one day I would be in Congress, I would have said, 'You're crazy. You don't know what you're talking about.'

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

I've been a speaker. I've been a majority leader. I've been a minority leader. Those are the sort of things I don't need any more.

People think my family pushed me into running for office. The person who pushed me most not to run for office was my father.

When I was a young man, I used to dream maybe someday I could be an alderman. Instead of that I became an attorney general, a senator, a vice president, a Democratic nominee.

I've never believed in running for office so you can eventually run for some other office.

Although I come from a political family, I consider myself a slightly atypical politician.

If I look back to when I was 20 and somebody said you'd be president, I would have said no way.

No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.

Up until Trump announced his candidacy, the conventional wisdom was that you had to be a professional politician in order to run. You had to have a background that was politically scrubbed. In other words, smart people who didn't live perfect lives could never run.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I'd be the chief minister.

I became a prime minister within four-and-a-half years, the shortest kind of career ever in Israeli political history.

I am the most unlikely star in the world.

A lot of people don't know this about me but actually I started in politics.

If a man aspires for a political career, he can start at 18 and go on and on. This is not true about women, who fall back when marriage and children happen, which are equally important. That is not gender bias.

Nobody thought Finn Balor would be in the WWE. Here I am.

Professional politicians often claim they are not professional politicians. Trump genuinely isn't one.

I started playing basketball very late, and for me to make it to the league so fast... I've always said my life is a movie.

I started in a very small tennis club in a South American country where I never thought about becoming the best tennis player.

I didn't even dream of going to college. College was not in my definition. If somebody told me I was going to play for the Missouri Tigers in 2009, I would laugh at them.

I always believed I could win the election. After I won the primary, people started telling me, 'No one thought you had a chance.' I was like, 'Really?' I thought I could win the whole time.