Patti Smith Quotes

In order to survive politically, you've got to have a big-buck fundraiser at least one a year.

When I ran for the Senate, I ran to bring change to Washington, not simply to become a woman senator.

I am joining politics for sure.

I'm running [ for presidency] because we need to take our country back.

Getting reelected is the most important job every senator thinks he has.

We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.

I've seen the film. And I'll tell you this, I'm glad Chuck Yeager isn't running for President.

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 didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

Barack Obama has raised tons of money. That is what he means by being green.

When I met Paul Ryan 22 years ago, he was a student at Miami of Ohio volunteering on my campaign.

When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.

I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.

I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

I ran for Congress, just once.

It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.

I want to do my part in fighting for America's future. That's why I have decided to run for the United States Senate.

Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.

I was a surrogate for Obama; I helped fundraise. I'm still a supporter.

We have become part-time Senators and full time fund-raisers. Even the schedule of the Senate itself is now arranged around the need to raise money for the next political campaign, rather than around the need to solve the nation's problems and do the people's business.

Congressman are spending too much time raising money.

A congressman serves a two year term. As soon as he gets elected, he has to start attending fund raisers.

I ring 8,000 to 10,000 doorbells every time I run.