Ann Widdecombe Quotes

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

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 don't believe you are simply born with the ambition of becoming chancellor. But if you want to make a difference, if you enjoy putting ideas into practice, then the post of chancellor has to be the one presenting the biggest opportunity of all.

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 have been accused of ambition in presenting this measure.... I am no candidate for any office in the gift of these States, united or separate. I never wish, never expect to be. Pass this bill, tranquilize the country, restore confidence and affection for the Union, and I am willing to go to Ashland and renounce public service forever.

Public men rarely keep their promises to retire from public life.

I would rather have a full term in the Senate—a place in which I would feel more consciously able to discharge the duties required, and where there is more chance to make a reputation, and less danger of losing it than four years of the presidency.

Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to become President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

You are the only man in history to every use the Presidency as a stepping stone to greatness.

Men in political life must be ambitious.

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

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.

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

Didn't you know I'm going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don't feel badly, I didn't either!

I actually became a lawyer because I thought you had to be a lawyer in order to get into national politics.

When I was a young man, I used to dream maybe someday I could be an alderman. Instead of that I became an attorney general, a senator, a vice president, a Democratic nominee.

I would never run for any office or government position. I'm not into it.

When you've written 10 books and have six on the New York Times best-seller list - and four have been No. 1 - I think you have a right to be a member of Congress.

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've always tried to set some kind of goal. I want to be better than anybody in the banking business, and when I ran the Highway Department in Georgia, I wanted it to be the best in the country. And of course, I have a high sense of public service.

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 hadn't really thought about politics as a career in my twenties or early thirties.

The traditional path to making a name for yourself in our family is running for elective office, and I couldn't do that because, for one thing, all the really good offices were taken.

I am not joining politics. I don't intend to contest election. I am happy to be back to doing normal things, be it films or other work.