Timothy Griffin Quotes

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

I may be leaving the Senate, but the next chapter in my public service is just beginning.

I have absolutely no interest in running for president again. None. None. I mean, I know that's hard for some people to believe, but, you know, I just don't.

I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.

I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

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.

Elective office and public service are obviously something that have long ties with my family, and something I'm definitely interested in.

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.

Being a politician is a calling second only to being a minister.

I love serving in the government. I love serving in the Senate.

My childhood dream was to be prime minister.

I would quite like to be home secretary again if I ever got the opportunity because there's a few things I'd like to do a bit better than last time.

I want to be a public servant, not a politician.

For future politics, I don't know what it holds, but if there's a possibility that the people want me to do another political office, again, maybe I'll do it.

As I stated shortly after retiring from the U.S. Army and first pursuing a seat in Congress in 2010, I planned to self-impose term limits.

Before I could become a military officer or a Member of Congress, I was required to do one thing: Take an oath to the Constitution.

You could be a senior senator and have never managed more than a hundred people in your life.

But politics is something that would require so much of me. I'm a public figure now, but as a politician... It's more likely that I'll become a sportscaster than a politician.

I have absolutely no interest in running for president again.

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.

I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity. But many years ago, my father said he wanted me to run the brewery and he'd do politics.

I know I'm not going to be working with the WWE forever. That's why I'm going to be the Mayor of the city of Houston, so I can move on to the next stage of my life.

I never thought I would run for office.

I spent three years working at the White House and wanted to do something that wasn't about passing bills and resolutions.