Ehud Olmert Quotes

I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.

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.

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 used to imagine working as a White House staffer some day, so it was pretty amazing to be there... realizing another dream.

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

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

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

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to transition in, so that's a decade of my life where I pursued my own ambitions and I thought it was time to rearrange my life to focus on other things.

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

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

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

I'd never rule anything out, to be honest with you, whether it be the small of volunteer status for a community organization or national politics, who knows?

I definitely envision myself in politics at some point.

I just didn't have the desire to run for political office. There are other things that I like to do, and it just wasn't my choice. But if it had been my choice, I certainly would have done it.

I haven't ruled out another run for office at some point.

I want to be Prime Minister, but I will stand for Mayor of London first.

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.

I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office.

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

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.

I have no intention of running for office again.

It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator - just as I believe he has been a great Attorney General. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.

People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.

Rick Santorum has so much potential and so much eagerness to serve our country.