Bidzina Ivanishvili Quotes

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

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

My childhood dream was to be prime minister.

Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever.

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.

There is absolutely no way that I would enter that world. I would never run for office.

I think I can change things for the better in this country. I'm doing it now as well, in many areas, mostly in education, higher education and technological entrepreneurship. But I think I could do a lot more from a presidential position.

Be a President. Don't try to be a lawyer.

A man’s got to walk if he is going to be in politics.

I ran for Congress in 1992, but I lost the election, and I really dropped the idea of ever serving in Congress. Eventually, I went home and became the mayor of my city, West Palm Beach. I was mayor for eight years.

The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.

I have no desire to run for public office.

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.

I want to become prime minister.

I'd love the job of Chancellor one day.

The closer you get to Number 10 the more you see what a back-breaking job that is, the pressure is absolutely constant and the loss of privacy is almost complete so I don't have ambitions in that direction and there is no vacancy nor likely to be during my time in politics.

Of course I want to be [prime minister].

I've heard it for years, if you're very successful you can't run for high office, especially for President.

I'm not looking to be anyone's vice president. I looking to be the president of the United States. Or, I'll be a private citizen, there's nothing wrong with being a private citizen.

Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister with distinction

My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.

I think I would rather be a prime minister than a taxi driver.

An important governorship used to be the best springboard for would-be presidents.

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

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.