Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

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

I didn't realize the president was such an historian.

I think I should be a president. President of the United States.

Don't get me wrong: I would love to be president.

I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.

Study history. Study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

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 most honorable adventure.

My dream was to do political journalism.

I thought I'd be president of the United States.

Do I want to be premier? Yes, I do.

I have no political aspiration.

You want to be awesome in Qualcomm.

I think politics is definitely something that I've always thought about as a career.

I could really see myself in politics. Who knows?

I deserved better than to be bullshitted by the vice president.

I would never run for president.

Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research.

And Joe Biden, thank you for being the best Vice President I could ever hope for.

My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I was 9-years-old that's what I told people I was going to be. The mayor of the city of Detroit.

Tim Kaine is an excellent choice for vice president.

Make sure you have a vice president in charge of your revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues.

I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use. And that is what I did.

There is little doubt that, until 1846 when he helped to engineer the resignation of Robert Peel, Disraeli was driven by an ambition to make his mark rather than by any consistent political purpose, and that his attacks on Peel would have not have been so mounted had he been given in 1841 the office for which he had asked.

If Hillary Clinton can be president, then one girl can be mayor. And someone else can be a police chief, and someone else can be a U.S. senator.